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Three Violent People (Paramount), a frazzled old carpetbag about a Confederate veteran fighting off a Yankee land-grabber, makes one (and only one) original contribution: Tom Tryon, a 31-year-old bit-part boy from Broadway who, in his first good screen part as the one-armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...
...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...
...Last month in a Brooklyn movie house, a pipe-bomb exploded, injured seven people. On Christmas Eve a page found a sock-wrapped bomb in a telephone booth of the New York Public Library. Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...
...squad were kept on the run (107 times last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
...Rainmaker (Hal Wollis; Paramount). Most modern audiences seem to enjoy a good sermon-as long as it preaches what they practice. They are also increasingly symbol-minded-provided the symbols do not excite the mental so much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...