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Escape from Fort Bravo (M-G-M), riding hard on the hoofbeats of Shane and High Noon, should prove to the movie public that the old mare is what she used to be-and maybe more. Director John Sturges' Bravo is in some ways the best western since 1943's memorable Ox-Bow Incident...
Hondo (Warner) is a western that has provoked a gag question in Hollywood: "Ain't it a Shane about Wayne?" The answer is: yes, sort of. The movie starts off looking like Shane by introducing the hero (John Wayne) as Shane was introduced-staggering out of the desert like a gun-slinging anchorite...
...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...
...Shane," with Alan Ladd as the mysterious hero from out of the night, is several cuts above most other westerns. The brightest spot is a violently refight scene which has punch even in 3-D. Jean Arthur and Van Hefliu play man-and-wife. Their son, Brandon do Wilde, has the distinction of being one of the few non-objectional movie juvonilee. At the Greenwich...
...horse opera has changed since the good old days (Buck Jones, Tom Mix) when a cowboy preferred his horse to a girl. Today's westerns are different. As a result of the success of Shane and High Noon, Hollywood last week was busy with no less than 22 variations on the same theme. Some of them: ¶ Hondo (Warner Bros.) is a Shane-type hero played by John Wayne. Says Producer Robert Fellows: "There is a reminder of Shane in this picture, but it is . . . just a coincidence. However, we purposely did alter the horse-opera formula a little...