Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Incident (20th Century-Fox) is Walter Van Tilburg Clark's excellent sagebrush yarn filmed with tantalizing promise, a good deal of performance and some of lanky Henry Fonda's best acting...
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering...
...vivid background on the Libyan desert and some of the most utterly realistic battle scenes ever filmed hold up an otherwise flimsily constructed picture. Henry Fonda goes through the process of becoming a leader of men under the tutelage of Thomas Mitchell, who is the sergeant in charge of a lost sunrise-patrol. Every so often, there is a flash-back to Maureen O'Hara, because Hollywood has just got to work romance in somehow. Since Maureen isn't on the scene of action it moves along fairly well, but not on a par with terrific action scenes, which alone...
Cactus and Rattlesnakes. Hayward raised $30,000 from rich clients like James Stewart and Henry Fonda, bought a small civilian school at Phoenix, hired six instructors. A little later he bought a one-mile desert tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder...
Cinemactor Henry Fonda, father of three, reported to the Navy in Los Angeles for duty as an apprentice seaman...