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Director Elliot Silverstein, freshly sprung from television, sows this wild-oater with all manner of trickery, and most of it works-from speeded-up chase sequences to an entr'acte by a pair of banjo-banging troubadours (Stubby Kaye and the late Nat King Cole) who stroll improbably from scene to scene, keeping the flimsy narrative intact with snatches of song. In a performance that nails down her reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow...
Only Sprocket Holes. Stevens made Shane, too. deliberately including every major cliche of the oater: cattlemen v. sodbusters, gunfighters out of nowhere, a funeral, a Fourth of July party. Stevens found under each cliche its root truth as a primal element of life on the range, turning what could have been a routine buttermilker into one of the greatest westerns ever told...
...minute condensation), followed by such milestones as The Jazz Age and The Innocent Years (1900-14). For early next year, Hyatt & Co. have prepared a program on American music in the '305 and an examination of The Real West (Gary Cooper narrating) that should leave the average TV oater looking like whinny the pooh. And this Easter or next Project Twenty will complete its life of Christ, taking the story step by step through Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Mantegna's Ascension...
After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
...television scorecard that promised so many hits in September by last week read like a list of amateur-night losers. Latest Nielsen ratings reported only one this-season entry among the top ten: ABC's oater. The Rifleman. All the rest of the top ten are oldtimers, and apart from the Danny Thomas Show, they are all westerns. Reaching charitably down into the top 30, Variety records a few new "nervous" hits, e.g., Peter Gunn, The Texan. But TV's winter statistics make up a sad list of dead and dying shows...