Word: holden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must guard itself from a restless crowd of Confederate prisoners within and from a cruel horde of Mescalero Indians without. A romantic fifth column is also on hand in the shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that they arc playing for keeps...
Despite her new-found love for Northerner Holden, Eleanor loyally joins her Southern beau and three friends in an escape she helps plan. Holden recaptures them, but in the outcome, both sides have to join in fighting off one of the most imaginative Indian attacks ever filmed...
...first time in U.S. history, a new movie had its premiere on television last week. The film, Paramount's Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden, was not very good. But the TV audience was not very large either; it consisted only of those who could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). William Holden in Needle in the Haystack...
Author F. Hugh Herbert's dialogue is light and sparking, his screenplay a wonderfully successful vehicle for his heroine's naivete. William Holden is easy going and competent while David Niven wisely plays with restraint a part that is rather overwritten. And though there are some stage waits toward the end and the direction falters slightly, Miss McNamara's winsomeness and Mr. Herbert's comic talent conspire to produce delightfully witty entertainment...