Word: shane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what we need--not now anyway. The Brattle could come up with a totally mindless festival without half trying. Cowboy films say. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Shane, Broken Arrow, the Virginian. A flash of gunfire and the mind is soothed. Or navy films, consciousness corroded by a film of brine. The Caine Mutiny, Run Silent, Run Deep, even Captain Horatio Hornblower...
...life has been as bitter as his father's darkest tragedies, and Shane O'Neill, 45, Eugene's disinherited son, believes he suffers from a tribal curse...
...brother, Eugene Jr., committed suicide; his first child, Eugene III, smothered at the age of three months. And, like his father's mother, the model for Mrs. Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, Shane has been for 20 years a drug addict. Last spring in Manhattan, he was arrested for trying to steal prescription blanks to obtain narcotics. Last week, calling him "the most bedraggled, woebegone man ever to come before this bench," the judge gave Shane a suspended sentence. Perhaps his luck is changing: with some $200,000 his wife recently inherited, he has promised...
...Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with...
...tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...