Word: oaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Commercial TV has pushed the good grey BBC out of the popularity contest altogether. No BBC program, according to TAM (Television Audience Measurement Ltd.), is now a serious contender for the ten regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
Trigger-quick on wisecracks, some of them corny even for a simple-minded oater, this horseplay opera is a Technicolored remake of the 1936 Bing Crosby musical, Rhythm on the Range. Its chief assets: four new songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, two leading ladies (Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery), and a personable prize bull named Cuddles, who provides a beefy relief from the Martin and Lewis brand...
...Indian Fighter, first production of an independent company formed by Actor Kirk Douglas, is one of the more successful of Hollywood's current attempts to sow a wild oater. The picture begins with a closeup shot of a shapely Indian girl (Elsa Martinelli) undressing by the side of a forest stream. After a while a paleface (Kirk Douglas) moseys by, and the two of them engage in some water play. By the time Actor Douglas gets out of the drink, he is really in the Siouxp. Old Red Cloud is attacking the fort...