Word: saloon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Producer Lippert keeps his casts and crews hopping like ushers. Once he filmed six westerns simultaneously in 28 days, using the same cast and sets, photographing the same saloon from different angles for each picture, letting the same posse race through six different patches of countryside for the chase scenes. Early in his producing days, he told an interviewer: "I see about ten movies every weekend. Well, I see a movie I like, and we just change legionnaires to frontiersmen and the Arabs to Indians, and we start shooting...
Five years ago, none doubted the U.S. strength. Now doubts are everywhere. No neighborhood saloon lacks a master strate gist in can prove that the U.S. is helpless against the Reds in Korea or Indo-China, or Iran, or France. Such calamity-howling Clausewitzes are twice as thick in the Senate as in the saloons, twice as thick in the State Department as in the Senate, and twice as thick in the Pentagon as in the State Department...
...faithful followers made its way to Medicine Lodge, Kans. (pop. 2,290), to dedicate a brick and frame house as a W.C.T.U. memorial. It was the old home of Carry Nation, and furnished with her original bar-smashing hatchet, the satchel in which she carried bricks to bash in saloon mirrors and glasses, her old rocking chair and desk, and a life-sized portrait of the woman who also once urged Britons to give up their intemperate habit of drinking...
There isn't much suspense either, since villain saloon-keeper Lambert (Paul Kelly) is clearly far stupider than Banning as well as being a poorer shot...
...current stampede to make Technicolored westerns pegged on the Civil War (see below). Neither good, bad nor indifferent to any standard device of horse opera, the picture makes a feeble stab at novelty by casting Hedy Lamarr and Ray Milland- both with the wrong accents-as a saloon queen and a Confederate ex-colonel...