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...seven minutes and cost $5,500,000, even though most of it was filmed in what Hollywood's cost accountants call the "budget badlands" of central Mexico. It presents two major stars (Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn) and an outsize posse of featured players (Audie Murphy, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish, John Saxon, Albert Salmi, June Walker, Joseph Wiseman). It was directed by John Huston, whose Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of the best westerns ever made, and it was shot from a script by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle) Maddow that seizes a timely and heroic theme, the struggle...
...runner (Wiseman), mad with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is really a "red-hide whelp," a papoose the father rescued from a massacre of Kiowas. The hero asks his mother (Gish) if the tale is true. He is shattered when she says it is. Nevertheless, even though he hates Indians as only a man can whose father has been killed by them, he defends the little "red Niggah" against the Kiowas, who fight to get her back; against the other ranchmen...
...amusing or striking; the atmosphere can quiver with menace; and the expertly managed verse is flexible as other things are rigid. Stuart Vaughan's sound staging and Norris Houghton's shapely set make for helpfully stylized effects, although a cast that includes Florence Reed, Lillian Gish and Fritz Weaver tends to act in varying styles. The cast, understandably, come off best where Eliot did-with the language...
...Contemptibles" (the first British soldiers to fight in France) in World War I, he was invalided home with an ankle injury, made his stage debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became...
...worlds of diplomacy, politics [Republican Congresswoman from Connecticut], the theater [The Women'], and letters [Europe in the Spring']." In Manhattan Clare Luce got word of the honor while plotting a new play (tentative title: The Little Dipper), all about a kleptomaniac, with Silent Cinemactresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish waiting in the wings for co-starring roles...