Word: gunfighting
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...friend of theirs, William Graham, 18. Only the week before, Tuller & Sons and Graham, two of them posing as telephone repairmen, had entered a bank in Arlington, Va., and tried to hold it up. They were interrupted before they could get away with any money, and in the gunfight that followed, both the bank manager and a policeman were killed. After the bandits made their escape, the FAA sent out a warning to airlines that they might try to hijack a plane. But the airlines get so many alerts of this kind that it is hard...
Divorced. Rhonda Fleming, 48, erstwhile film sultress (The Big Circus, The Crowded Sky, Gunfight at the OK Corral); and Hall Bartlett, 50, Hollywood producer (Crazylegs, Drango); after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...corporate film wave. It has an allure not confined to members of FORTUNE'S august list of the 500 largest U.S. industrial companies. Kirk Douglas, after 25 years as one of Hollywood's most backable stars, recently had trouble raising money for A Gunfight, a property with a strong screenplay starring himself and Johnny Cash (see CINEMA). Then the Jicarilla Apaches, a wealthy Indian tribe (gas leases and mineral rights) with a sophisticated investment policy offered to put up the entire $2 million. For once, it was the Indians to the rescue...
...Like almost half the movies made these days, Gunfight was financed outside Hollywood. But its backers were not ordinary investors. The Jicarilla Apaches, a tribe of about 1,800 New Mexican Indians with a substantial income from oil and gas investments, put up $2,000,000. Says Chief Charlie Vigil: "We consider ourselves a corporation like any other." The chief liked the idea of bankrolling Johnny Cash because he is one-fourth Cherokee...
Another western for swingers. Doc, Frank Perry's new film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...