Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This perhaps sounds like a standard Western plot. But is interesing portrayal of both Indians and fur trappers make The Big Sky quite a bit better than average. Kirk Douglas, in a role cast from the mold of James Fenimore Cooper's "Hawkeye," strikes a good balance between heroism and humor. And the leading lady is a real Indian...
...never got up a full head of steam. Its first director, Gordon Gray, resigned after six months; he was succeeded by Raymond B. Allen, who took the job on a temporary basis, is quitting after 8½ months. Last week, the board got its third skipper-Admiral Alan G. Kirk, U.S.N...
...Intelligence for seven months, later commanded task forces in the invasions of Sicily and Normandy. After the war he served as Ambassador to Belgium (1946-49) and the Soviet Union (1949-52). He was the personal choice of the Central Intelligence Agency's Walter Bedell Smith, who preceded Kirk as ambassador in Moscow...
Missouri River from St. Louis during the 18303. On board the whisky-laden keelboat Mandan are a brawling Creole crew captained by roly-poly Frenchie (Steven Geray); a couple of Kentucky mountain men, high-spirited Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and hot-tempered Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin); and a hostage Blackfoot princess named Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt), who has been taken along to safeguard the expedition against Indian attacks...
...KIRK BRYAN...