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Rachel and the Stranger. Engaging comedy-drama about the frontier of the early 1800s, with Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young, William Holden (TIME, Sept...
...whole cast of the Robert Mitchum dope case, troubles kept multiplying. Having failed to get the marijuana indictment dismissed, the droopy-eyed film star and two codefendants, all pleading "not guilty," would have to stand trial. Two days after her courtroom appearance, Dancer Vickie Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return...
Rachel and the Stranger. Engaging comedy-drama about the frontier of the early 1800s, with Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden (TIME, Sept...
...Ohio. Widower David Harvey (William Holden) buys Bondwoman Rachel (Loretta Young) for $22, marries her, and brings her back to his remote cabin. He treats her like a servant and his little boy Davey treats her like dirt. When David's old friend, deep-woods Hunter Jim (Robert Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling all get remarkably open, and rather funny, until a pack of Shawnees interrupt, with...
...small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...