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Based on a novel by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, the movie tells the story of a headstrong filly (Barbara Stanwyck) with a father fixation. The old man (the late Walter Huston) is a ripsnorting, tyrannical cattle baron who is so absolute a local sovereign that he even prints his own money. When Huston imports a Washington society matron (Judith Anderson) whom he plans to marry, Barbara works herself up to hurling a pair of scissors at the intruder's face. Banished for her impulsiveness, Barbara plots to wreck Huston and seize his domain. She recruits help from...
...first full mile, Middleground's 18-year-old Jockey Willie Boland hung just back of the pacesetter and bided his time. Headstrong Hill Prince shot into the lead despite Jockey Eddie Arcaro's tight hold ("He got away from me") and held the pace up through the final turn. Then, with a bare 250 yards to go, Hill Prince faltered into the ruck...
...Headstrong Men. Many a traveler for many a century, says Author O'Faolain, has savagely refused to accept the fact that the cities of Italy "are not museums." Burgeoning with the exuberance that makes every Italian "a great, bursting bag of life," these cities have from time immemorial massacred their own beauties, thrown out long sprays of indiscriminate architectural splendor and ugliness-"gems set in pig-iron...
...Middle Ages spent hundreds of years destroying the grandeur that was Rome and rebuilding it in their own image-only to have it razed in turn by the headstrong men of the Renaissance. The process has never stopped: Art Pundit John Ruskin, making a pilgrimage to the ancient refectory of Santa Croce in the 19th Century, found it had become a bustling carpet factory; to view what remained of its frescoes he was obliged to scale a loom. He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap...
There the repentant Toad determines to lead a new life, exemplified by his loyal but stuffy middle class friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat. When he escapes from the Tower, however, he reverts to his behavior as headstrong scion of the aristocracy...