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Filmed with Colorado's Rocky Mountains, as a back-drop, Naked Spur recounts the trials of a Kansas rancher, Stewart, who pursues a desperate killer, Robert, Ryan, for the price on his head. After capturing the killer, he soon liquidates him (not without reason) and then departs with Janet Leigh for California, his pockets empty. All this intends to point up the moral that Stewart should never have tried to get a pecuniary reward in the first place...
...Robert Smith; Columbia) is a shoddy little shocker that combines a futuristic theme with old-hat moviemaking. A quintet of characters in a Manhattan bar hears the news that the U.S.S.R. is atom-bombing the United States. In the ensuing carnage, the quintet-a tractor manufacturer (Robert Bice), a rancher (Erik Blythe), a Congressman (Wade Crosby) a TV reporter (Gerald Mohr) and a beautiful blonde (Peggie Castle)-are killed...
...Rancher Joe Evans, a Baptist layman who has organized some of the Southwest's most successful camp meetings (TIME, July 30, 1951), was especially shocked. Camp meetings, said he, represent "real, undented religion." He added: "If the Episcopal Church endorses the things Wright said in his address to the lawyers, I think they are fundamentally unsound in their belief and doctrine...
...lonely Kenya ranch house some 60 miles north of Nairobi, Mrs. Dorothy Raynes-Simson, a cattle rancher, sat chatting with her partner, Kitty Hesselburger. There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. One man seized Mrs. Hesselburger by the throat, bent her across a chair; the rest set upon Mrs. Raynes-Simson, who grabbed her revolver, a handbag necessity for most Kenya white women these days, and blazed away. She shot two men dead...
...recent years, big city exhibitionists, bent on suicide, headlines, or both, have taken to balancing high on window ledges while threatening to jump to the crowd-jammed streets below. It remained for a wealthy young Texas cattle rancher named Ollie William Cox to perform the same tragic stunt in an airplane...