Word: heflinism
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...Paramount) is as high-styled a Technicolored horse opera as moviegoers are likely to see this year. It tells the familiar old western yarn about the good guy v. the badmen. The mysterious stranger named Shane (Alan Ladd) befriends a couple of turn-of-the-century Wyoming homesteaders (Van Heflin and Jean Arthur) and their nine-year-old son (Brandon de Wilde). Having helped the "sodbusters" fight off a group of villainous cattlemen who are trying to grab their land, Shane just as mysteriously rides off into the blue distance...
...Heflin plays the tortured man with rare balance. As the doctors force his personality into a crippling semblance of text-book sanity, he realizes he must bend or remain permanently in an insane asylum. Behind the doctors is always his wife, their symbol of sanity, and finally he grovels before her rather than remain with the terror of the hospital's inmates and its cold, insensitive physicians. Gradually, then, Heflin's will bends, and breaks completely...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Over 21, starring Van Heflin, Ruth Gordon...
...vague political arguments with his American Legionnaire father (Dean Jagger), but his mother (Helen Hayes) adores and defends him. When she accidentally discovers a key in Robert's pocket that leads to the apartment of a suspected Communist girl spy, she decides to cooperate with FBI Man Van Heflin in bringing her son to justice. At that point, Robert, about to fly to Lisbon, has an abrupt change of political heart. While trying to get to the FBI, he is shot by fellow Communists in a wild auto chase through the capital, and dies on the steps...
...ball . . . before the clock runs out." Dean Jagger, as the small-town schoolteacher father "who thinks with his heart," is required at one point to hit his son over the head with a Bible. About the only person in the picture who acts with much sense is Van Heflin...