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...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...
...there were bullfights too-though it did "look like a man was getting tola-ble low to fight a duel with a bull when he could easy get out of it." Now and then the cowpoke got to a big city. San Francisco was his favorite. In the funniest passage in the book, McCauley describes how a country boy behaved in one of the elegant restaurants there. "I saw I had overjumped my pile but I looked wise, told the waiter to bring me a steak about the size of a mule's lip from the ear down...
...BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayals of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda...
...BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayal of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda...
...mock-historical narrator who tries to pinpoint everyone's position on a map from time to time. Lancaster, a commanding presence as always, looks permanently flabbergasted over his first venture into an out-and-out farce, though his attitude seems appropriate to the movie's funniest scene-pondering strategy after a fierce battle waged in a blinding sandstorm, he finds that there hasn't been a single casualty on any side. Actress Remick's pioneer prudery is the standard brand, softened with lipstick, eye shadow and plunging necklines...