Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young U.S. sportsman (Robert Stack) determines, almost as a lark, to learn how to handle the matador's fighting cape and sword. He persuades Mexico's leading bullfighter (Gilbert Roland) to teach him, falls in love with a high-born local girl (Joy Page) and then with the bulls. When Matador Roland dies in the ring while saving Stack's life, Stack, still an amateur, feels he must vindicate his honor and courage in the face of a hostile crowd and a raging bull...
This unencumbered plot gives moviegoers a chance to learn the art of bullfighting with Stack, from its basic techniques to its intense traditions and harsh, proud standards. Actor Roland plays the professional matador with an aplomb and mature authority that appear nowhere in the cast of The Brave Bulls. He gets good support from Stack and Actresses Page and Katy Jurado, who seem more convincing as Mexican women than Miroslava. Directed by onetime matador Budd Boetticher and edited (without screen credit) by Producer Wayne's good friend, John Ford, the bullfighting sequences outdo Rossen's in stylized grace...
Most of the concentrators in the field major in French and most of these take French 20, a tough, packed general view of France's literature from the Song of Roland on. This is the course that Andre Morize organized so well, although the amount of material covered is staggering...
Others in the cast include Paul T. Broneer '51, Nathan A. Haverstock '53, Marjorie Hill '53, Solomon Hurwitz '53, Roland F. Perkins '52, John E. Rexine '51, and Herbert L. Young '52. Hugh Amory '52 is director, and William J. Hotch '53 is business manager...
...first half, Dayton's hard-driving Style of play held Brigham Young almost perfectly even. In the second half, Dayton was still very much in the game (35-30) when Brigham Young suddenly broke the game wide open. The buster-upper: Roland Minson, 22, a spring-legged six-footer and the smallest regular on the floor. In three minutes, using its famed fingertip passing and its whippet speed, Brigham Young ran up 15 points, nine of them by Jack Rabbit Minson. During this spree, Dayton was so intent on stopping Minson that it scored precisely one point for Dayton...