Word: nicolls
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...sets out for a small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy, dragged him through a bonfire, killed his mules and burned his wagons...
Jimmy is now twice as hot for revenge as before. He trails Nicol into town, thrashes him and then pitches into Nicol's keeper, Arthur Kennedy. This brawl is suspended by the arrival, in turn, of Nicol's father (Donald Crisp), who owns all the country for miles around. He offers to pay damages for the mule train if Jimmy will just leave town. But then, where would the picture be? So Jimmy sticks around, makes mild love to Cathy O'Donnell, outfights a treacherous assailant, shoots Nicol in the hand, exposes Kennedy as a seller...
...picture is loaded down with a complex plot about a lieutenant (Jeff Chandler) whose top sergeant (Alex Nicol) hates him because he believes the lieutenant is responsible for the death of the sergeant's brother in a prewar trucking accident. For run-of-the-movie-mill romance, there are a couple of shapely Red Cross workers and a busty mademoiselle. All in all, Red Ball Express often bogs down in a dramatic rut when it should be rolling along in high...
...wardrobe. She asked the Franco authorities for a passport, saying she wanted to go to Paris and "buy a few dresses." She tried to help her cause by making the rounds of Madrid's gay spots with the pudgy dictator's pudgy, pleasure-loving brother, Nicolás Franco, who is Ambassador to Portugal. But within a few days of the Duchess' request for a passport, police were quick to note, a letter from Don Juan reached Francisco Franco asking the dictator to step down for the sake of "our common country...
...passport was forthcoming. Not even brother Nicolás could do anything. Last week, Luisa María canceled her travel plans and said philosophically: "Never mind. It won't be long before I'll be traveling on a diplomatic passport signed by a minister of the king. My only regret is that I wasted time dancing with that fat, perspiring...