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...worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material welfare of these men and their families-about 400 people-is directly dependent on Eastland. By Delta standards, he does well by them. Showpiece of the Eastland plantation is Preston Jones, Negro manager of a 360-acre "unit," who last year netted $7,800 after living expenses. Jones is admittedly exceptional, but General Manager Godbold estimates that the 84 sharecroppers probably averaged $800 as their share of the plantation profits last year. Asks Godbold: "How many auto or aircraft workers...
...perhaps the major charm of the show comes from minor characters involved in incidental routines. Particularly good is Henry Holmes, as Harold Steadfast, the indefatiguable buddy of Truman Pendennis. Preston Brown's spoof of New England economy and conservatism is touching with his flawless Marlborough Street accent. Timothy Gates, as the angel child's aged mother, has little opportunity to extemporize, though his exit song is delightfully dead-pan and relaxed...
...again this year. His first job: to win the Democratic primary from hard-running George P. Mahoney, perennial candidate and onetime chairman of the State Racing Commission; in this Tydings already has the backing of such powerful Democrats as Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and ex-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. His second job: to beat a John Marshall Butler who is notably stronger than he was in 1950, who has won the solid support of Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin and the busi ness community by working tirelessly for Maryland's best interests, e.g., to rehabilitate...
...reason is not hard to find. Victor Mature is a scout for the bluecoats, but every time old Red Cloud's boys creep up to the fort for a hair party, Mature is reconnoitering the firewater or the colonel's wife (Anne Bancroft). The colonel (Robert Preston) is 'presented as a psycho who would rather chase Red Cloud than Actress Bancroft. Vic is only too happy to take over the home detail. "Animal!" Anne pants at him one night. "Sometimes," Vic complains, "she looks at me as if I was a bear." "H'm," says...
...nothing else, the acting in this western is unusual. Robert Preston, playing the villain, reads his lines with an engaging military crispness and filches most of the moviegoer's sympathy from Hero Mature, who most of the time can hardly make himself understood. "I seen a boid," he keeps saying. "I seen a boid." Careful study of the script reveals that he is referring to a tribe of Indians called the Assiniboins...