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Adapted from a bestselling novel by a supersalaried screenwriter named Irwin Shaw, Two Weeks tells the story of a cinemale (Kirk Douglas) who goes barreling down Easy Street, runs into a mental block, spends six years on the reassembly line, comes out with a brand-new head, starts warily down the comeback trail. He finds it jammed with competition, potholed with passions, mined with animosities...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men-Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in Country, Kirk Douglas in Brave-who attempt to forget the gall of the world in following the call of the wild...
...mind was clearly himself. Tiny (5 ft. 5 in.) but truculent, Zanuck spent 36 supercolossal years in Hollywood, founded 2Oth Century-Fox in 1933, left both company and Hollywood only six years ago when, as he said, "actors like Kirk Douglas started producing movies." Once, on a movie set, he scolded a submissive assistant with a memorable command: "Don't say yes until I'm finished talking." He also made some memorable pictures-Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, All About Eve, Viva Zapata...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave...
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are two vastly superior westerns about untamed, free-spirited men whom civilization has made obsolescent. Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave) give strong, graceful performances with the unforced dignity of the old breed of western hero...