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...intensive search by the Federal Bureau of Mission Birds last night located John H. Ibis '54 calmly tippling in a local saloon. Ibis was reported mission Thursday morning...
Filmed largely around Jackson Hole, Wyo., Shane bulges with authentic sights & sounds. As the yarn plunges forward scene after scene hints at the pleasures and hardships of frontier life: homesteaders dancing and setting off homemade explosives at a July 4 party; bloody fistfighting in a saloon; little girls solemnly watching a sow with her sucklings; the ring of hand axes against a stump; tumbleweed brushing the legs of jittery horses; a harmonica solo of taps as a pine coffin is lowered into a hilltop grave Without recourse to tricky 3-D photography and Polaroid glasses, Stevens, with ordinary Technicolor camera...
...ring fans were suddenly seized with the idea that civilization itself was threatened by the "Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick and drank beer through a straw. What worse could be said...
...Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...
...plot is generally quite simple. A lean, hardfighting ex-officer and eternal gentleman returns to Old Home Town, Texas. Finding that some dam Yankee carpetbagger has cut him out of his job, girl, homestead, and even his favorite place in the saloon, the Forgotten Hero clenches his teeth and waits. He is still waiting and quietly suffering when the girl-snatching Nawthorn rascal injures either his mother (in pictures apologizing for the James boys) or anyone's honor (in all other films of this genre). Then all hell breaks loose with proud victors vanquished, widows revenged, and Yankee misrule giving...