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Warning Shot is the kind of film that was a fixture of the Forties: a lawman, framed for murder, tries to clear himself in a race against the clock. In this case, the cop on the lam is David Janssen, the long-distance runner of television's Fugitive...
Welcome to Hard Times is a movie composed entirely of other movies. Every character has been pretested in scores of scenarios: the evil gunslinger; the aging lawman, poor but honest; the frightened townspeople; prostitutes with guaranteed 24-carat hearts...
...lawman, Philadelphia's District Attorney Arlen Specter was almost to Blackstone born. He has officially been a law enforcement officer since the age of three, when the sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kans., deputized him during a visit and won young Specter fleeting fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not. In 1964, as one of the youngest (he was then 34) investigators with the Warren Commission, Specter developed the report's cental "single-bullet" theory of the Kennedy assassination. Then, back in Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily...
RANGO (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Lone Ranger reborn and played for laughs, with Tim Conway as a square Texas lawman and Guy Marks as his faithful Indian scout, Pink Cloud. In this episode, Rango is mistaken for an outlaw by a gang of cutthroats who promptly elect him their leader and take him on a series of holdups. Premi...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tin Star (1957), starring Henry Fonda as a onetime sheriff turned bounty hunter who is drawn into a showdown of strength-between a gunman and an inexperienced lawman, played by Tony Perkins...