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Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale...
...still it's just another western. In fact, a few of the grizzled old clansmen lapse into an occasional drawl. Even Hero Larry Parks appears to be still playing in his most successful picture. The Jolson Story: at one point he declaims vibrantly: "Ah luhvs yuh!" But no oater-fan is likely to object to any of the escapes and chases and pounding hooves...
...story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman. ¶J Cecil B. De Mille's Unconquered, involving Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard in flying tommyhawks. ¶ Warner Bros.' Calamity Jane, with Ann Sheridan. ¶ Paramount's California, with Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck...
...Year for Oaters. The first Successful storytelling movie made in the U.S., The Great Train Robbery (1903) was what the trade calls an oater-a Western. David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, which at $6,000,000 will outcost any other film ever made, is essentially another oater. Inspired less by Duel than by the end of war and the insatiable appetite for action, the major studios are this year spending some $20,000,000 on "class" oaters...
...rear. The other had been stolen by boys and the scent scattered on a lapse trail which had deceived the hounds. The break was a mile and a quarter from home, just over the Somerville line. The hares came in at about five, and twenty four minutes oater four of the hounds, Russell '87, Austin, '87, Guild, '86 and Dewey, '86, in the order named, came in. They had not waited for the break and so lost all chances for the cup. The first hound in, according to rules, was E. C. Webster, '87. A. T. Dudley, '87, was next...