Word: manne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These large, economy-size emotions are packaged in purple dialogue and strenuously oversold by Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann. To satisfy his enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried...
...Atlanta, more & more baseball fans were deserting the bleachers for their television sets. The Atlanta Crackers' President Earl Mann decided that something would have to be done. During the regular screening of the Crackers' game one night last week, the announcer first tried a little gentle persuasion: "If you want the national pastime continued on your TV set, make every effort to get out here at least once in the next few days . . . Realize that a few dollars spent for tickets is a small expenditure to protect your sports investment in your TV set." Then President Mann stepped...
...songs lack color, too. The only real support accorded the female form comes from Irene Sharaff, who has clothed it (when it is clothed at all) sumptuously, from two brilliant jugglers named Peiro, and from "Peanuts" Mann banging the daylights out of a drum...
...James Stewart in a shooting match. Then it is stolen by his brother (Stephen McNally), who is being hunted down by Stewart for the murder of their father. Before the hunt ends, the rifle is lost & found by half a dozen other characters, giving Director Anthony Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes in a burning house; a bank holdup and, finally, an exciting rifle duel on the side...
...political and economic power it wields. A blindness to the great liberal resources of Catholicism and a rigid and uncompromising adherence to doctrinaire notions of the 'separation' of church and state, which may have been suitable to American conditions in the days of Horace Mann, are not always appropriate to the United States...