Word: mclaglen
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...were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
...film does have some very funny moments, with Fitzgerald and a broken bed providing the best of them. John Wayne dragging Maureen O'Hara over five miles of rolling country will delight paleolithic lovers, and the town's reaction to the final battle between Wayne and Victor McLaglen is pleasantly reminiscent of the call to arms in Tight Little Island. The scene transitions are choppy, however, and until the last half hour, which is fast-moving and entertaining, plot and action lumber along together...
...acting varies from too much to none at all, McLaglen successfully straddles the two extremes, though his face permits the widest scowls and leers ever seen on a movie screen. Fitzgerald, of course, serves up his hoary characterization of the Lovable Old Irishman. Miss O'Hara looks fine herding sheep, but the scene in which she's frightened by lightning is probably the year's worst bit of acting. Wayne as usual is a capable hero...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Victor McLaglen in Port of Call...
...that any Irishman who wants to tell it again should first issue the general invitation, "Stop me if you've heard it." But Ireland's Liam O'Flaherty, author of that fine old favorite, The Informer (which a lot of people think was written by Victor McLaglen), takes up the theme as if no O'Faolain, O'Casey or O'Flaherty had ever played a variation on it before-and in two ticks he has the frayed old harp twanging away as rich as the day it was strung...