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Frenchie (Universal-International) tries hard to spice up horse opera with sex appeal. Its wide open spaces consist mostly of the territory just north of Shelley Winters' neckline, and about the only rustling in the picture is the sound of hip-tossed taffeta...
...Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since there are no real chases and only one gun duel...
...Rocky Mountains are pleasant to look at and are beautifully photographed by Maurie Gertsman. So is Shelley Winters...
...sticks to impressionistic sketches of packaged postwar living, his book is amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to be a novel, Mergendahl feels obligated to write about people. The result is a soupy and inept story about Veteran Don Cousins and his wife Shelley, who cannot decide whether to save money by sticking to Camptown and his job or take the long chance of striking out for Montana and starting a business of their own. It turns out to be a case of dull people getting in the way of an interesting setting. Though...
...emotional, cultural and philosophic. There is a large mass of death cells and thunderstorms, bloody hands and lethal highballs; of human beings maddened by guilt, crazed with fear, foul-mouthed from frustration. There is a potpourri of metaphysics from the Gospels to Kierkegaard; of poetry from Marvell to Shelley; of painting from Modigliani to Cézanne...