Word: oaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smooth the situation, which took on unfortunate racial overtones. At lunch he growled at her: "Pass the salt; it isn't black." She and Brown finally stopped talking altogether. The picture was execrable. But it cost only $6 million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss hay man get to be han hanimal like ju?" Such lines at least scotched rumors that Raquel was a crypto-Chicano; her accent was pure Hollywood...
...Outcasts (Monday, 9-10 p.m.). Something new gallops across the TV sagebrush: a pair of racially integrated bounty hunters. In this post-Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white...
...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum both get shot in this old-style oater-but it just gives them a chance to prove that two old pros are better on one good leg apiece than most of the younger stars...
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...