Word: grangers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stewart Granger heads the cast of classicists in the dual lead of king and commoner, Deborah Kerr is the provocative princess, James Mason the invidious villian, Jane Greer, a femina ex machina, and Louis Calhern the cunning colonel and tutor of tyrants. Louis Stone, who played the hero in the original version, appears briefly as the bishop...
...Utah, Republican Arthur Vivian Watkins, 65, lawyer, weekly newspaper publisher and onetime district judge, who volunteered to run for the Senate in 1946 when nobody else thought a Republican could win, won re-election against Representative Walter K. Granger, who was Utah's only New Deal Congressman to survive...
...Stewart Granger plays the dual role of King Rudolf V of Ruritania and his British cousin, Rudolf Rassendyll, who are as alike as identical twins. When the king is kidnaped by his conniving brother Michael (Robert Douglas), who has designs on the throne, Rassendyll obligingly shaves off his mustache, rivets a monocle into his profile and steps into the royal breach. After much leaping from balconies, swinging from trees, swimming across moats, charging across drawbridges and assorted gunplay and swordplay, Michael gets his comeuppance, the king is restored to his throne, and Rassendyll returns to England, enthroned in the heart...
This Prisoner of Zenda often stresses purple prose at the expense of red-blooded action, but all in all, it is a colorful version of a popular adventure tale. Granger gives a lively performance as both king and commoner. James Mason seems to enjoy swaggering through his role as the dastardly Rupert of Hentzau, and provides the picture with its most athletic sequence as he duels Rassendyll up & down Zenda castle. Lewis Stone, 72, who played the dual lead in the 1922 silent version, is here cast in a minor role as the cardinal...
...stories: The Gift of the Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...