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Mexican music can be rendered very well and very badly, but most of it has a seriousness and integrity that make a great deal of the U.S. radio's outpouring sound a little silly. And most Mexican music has that hallmark of all deeply traditional music: it sticks to the ears and can stand infinite repetition. A small, sound library of Mexican records would include some or all of the following songs and artists...
Based on the late, great Western Novelist Zane Grey's last story, Western Union bears the sterling hallmark of sagebrush romance. When Outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), riding hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
...mouthing claxon-like Cockney accents, draws an ugly but adept picture of a psychopathic killer; sparrow-voiced Betty Field turns the mousy Alma into a heroine with dimensions. But it is an actor's movie. There is never any real suspense in a story where suspense is the hallmark...
...Norse Knute Rockne. When Bonnie Skiles Rockne, who was brought to Hollywood for technical advice, had her first look at O'Brien's makeup, she pleased the publicity department by admitting: "I expected him to come up and make love to me." Such authenticity is not the hallmark of Knute Rockne-All American. Faithful and respectful as it may be to the Rockne biography, its frequent newsreel shots of Notre Dame at football are filled with chronological inaccuracies such as showing the lateral pass as a potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones...
Most distinctive hallmark of the streamline-builders is the sleek, shiny gleam of Budd trains. Only Budds are made of stainless steel and only Budds are likely to be, as long as the Philadelphia plant keeps a tight hold on its "Shotweld" process for welding stainless sheets together. Invented by Budd's Chief Engineer Colonel Earl James Wilson Ragsdale, onetime professional Army officer, the "Shotweld" machine is a foolproof, delicately balanced electrical device that can be operated by unskilled labor. In less than the winking of an eye (1/20 of a second) it sends a stabbing electric current through...