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Colorado Territory (Warner) sets long-legged Joel McCrea to work on an old plot in a handsome new location. This time McCrea is an outlawed train robber with a price on his head and the hope in his heart of becoming a simple rancher. Like many a sagebrush Robin Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang...
...Technicolored horse opera, is not appreciably different from dozens of other westerns currently galloping around the neighborhood circuits. In a rambling, inconsequential fashion, it tells the story of a reformed, horse-loving outlaw (Howard Duff) who meets up with the pretty daughter (Ann Blyth) of a rich, horse-racing rancher (George Brent). Howard is out to capture a wild horse. Ann, despite some flimsy pretenses to the contrary, is bent on catching a tame husband. After a good deal of shooting, roping and racing, and without offending either the S.P.C.A. or the Johnston Office, both of them get what they...
...young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range of a nearby rancher-but if all goes well she will bear a calf which has two pedigreed parents...
...hardly gets past the threshold of the plot. But Alexis Smith, as a sultry barroom singer with her lids at half-mast and her lips provocatively ajar, weaves more prominently in & out of the all-male hubbub. Eventually, her shady morals and mascara notwithstanding, she becomes the wife of Rancher McCrea. The highly involved plot in South of St. Louis, always pretty implausible, moves along at a fast enough clip to look convincing, and most of the principals are old enough hands at this sort of thing to take the handicaps and hurdles without breaking their easy canter...
...most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave...