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Spindly James Stewart gets his man and Janet Leigh to boot in M.G.M.'s brawling Technicolor western, The Naked Spur. He also meets a gold prospector, a cavalry officer, and a murderer. As if this was not enough t make him a bonfire western movie hero, Stewart more or less survives Indian attacks and avalanches...
Helping Stewart capture his quarry are Millard Mitchell, an unstable, disillusioned prospector, and Ralph Meeker, a lecherous dishonorably discharged Army officer. Janet Leigh, albeit in buckskins, looks out of place as sort of a roughneck ingenue...
...long. An uncle who was a diamond prospector offered the money for a passage to the U.S., and Nkrumah jumped at the chance. He enrolled at Lincoln University, a college for Negroes at Oxford, Pa., stayed there for eight years and three degrees. He earned modestly average grades and these written comments from his teachers...
...Naked Spur (MGM) is a bang-bang-up western and the shootingest Hollywood horse opera in months. It begins with a cagey killer (Robert Ryan) and his flinty pursuer (James Stewart) who is out to collect the $5,000 reward. An old prospector (Millard Mitchell) and a cashiered Union Army officer (Ralph Meeker) have cut themselves in on the reward money as Stewart's partners. Since this is a big Technicolor western, there is also a girl along for the ride, played by Janet Leigh in a becoming boyish blonde hairdo. By the fadeout, the bad man, the prospector...
...been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said...