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Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful, black horseflesh (TIME, July...
...look bored at mention of the proposed story about an unhappy North Dakota farm wife. The manufacturer who persists in going through with such a dubious theme is warned to soft-pedal it in advertising. (Paramount's Double Indemnity suffered when advance publicity tipped off audiences that Fred MacMurray was cast as a heel...
Smoky (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a long, beautiful, rather intense friendship between Fred MacMurray and a horse. An expert Technicolor treatment of Will James's famed (32 editions), 20-year-old novel, the picture is a big-budget Western designed to delight small boys of all ages...
There are only faint evidences that MacMurray may eventually get the girl (Anne Baxter). But no one really cares very much. The important relationship is between Cowpuncher MacMurray and stallion-two untamed, indomitable critters who have occasional differences but always understand one another. At the fadeout, cowboy and girl stand side by side under a brilliant Western sky, their eyes softly glazed with a love that is plainly directed at the horse...
Before he even took a screen test, Smoky was signed to a seven-year acting contract at a beginning salary of $300 a week. Actor MacMurray's gross earnings for the year 1944, reported fortnight ago by the U.S. Treasury...