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...Avon-Chalmar; M-S-M)isafallen woman (Susan Hayward) who pulls herself up from bawdyhouse to governor's mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...
Worse yet is the phony backwoodsiness of much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
...Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back to git...
...git it, Francis Powers finished high school in Grundy, Va., got a B.A. at Milligan College in Tennessee, and enlisted in the Air Force. In 1951 he was accepted for aviation cadet training, got his wings a year later. But even during the Korean war, when he was a full-fledged jet fighter pilot. Powers never saw service overseas. The Air Force did not seem to hold enough excitement for him, and in 1956 he resigned "to seek employment with civilian industry...
...they ever tell you o' Earl Long is dead," cracked a Louisiana politico, "you just ask them to call a Governors' race. If Earl don't git up an' run, he's dead sure enough...