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...quite obvious that a movie about a gun will be more interesting than a movie about a knife. Guns are louder. "Colt 45" therefore has advantages over "Commanche Territory," which is concerned with the invention and inventor of the Bowie knife...
...Commanche Territory" concerns the period in history when unruly mobs almost moved into Indian land to mine silver. Jim Bowie, friendly with the Indian because they admired his knife, manages to hold the bad men out of the land until the new treaty is signed. Except for a fight pitting the Bowie knife against an Indian tomshawk, this is unusually dull...
...Knife-nosed Ludovico Monti was a dedicated man. The most energetic news vendor in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence, he had been offered the local agency for many daily papers. But, with the support of his pretty wife Armida, Monti was determined to sell only Unita, the Communist paper which commanded all his faith and ambition...
Hamilton's prop men designed a thin, knife-edged blade of conventional, square-tipped shape that would move fast enough all along its length to leave shock waves behind. This did the trick. Tested in a wind tunnel, a scale model of the new propeller proved to be 80% efficient at 600 m.p.h. No shock waves roiled the air-flow over its smooth surfaces. Shock waves are not quick enough...
...trip spells double jeopardy for Dailey, a traveling salesman of mustache cups and the Saturday Evening Post, because Anne suspects him of villainy. Equally deadly with knife and gun, she is completely ignorant about men. Always at her side (by her grandfather's arranging) is a trusty, hatchet-bearing Indian sworn to keep her that way. Before the picture winds up in a sequence of skillfully pyramided gags, Dailey proves himself both a hero and a willing instructor in bussing-and, as moviegoers already know, an engaging song & dance...