Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...P.T.A. serve home-cooked country ham, chicken and cake at the school. And if the guests get to roughhousing, hooting, doing clog dances and even drinking a little-why, nobody much minds. "They can run around in circles and climb a tree if they want to," says Chief Deputy Sheriff R. L. Warren. "It's all open here...
...there is one interesting question here: How would a Negro in Jefferson County feel about having his county sheriff in charge of gun licenses? The case is pure theory, since Southern states filled with gun owners are the least likely to adopt any gun laws, but it points out the need for clear criteria for issuing the licenses...
...anomaly of casting, Henry Fonda-strained, sensitive and introverted as ever beneath a bad-guy black hat and a stubble beard-is called upon to play the leader of a menacing band of desperadoes. This troubled outlaw seems to be in need of a shrink more than a sheriff...
Fleeing from some unnamed shoot-'em-up. five badmen ride into the tiny frontier town of Firecreek, where they settle down while Fonda recuperates from a bullet wound in his side. The sheriff turns out to be earnest, mild-mannered James Stewart-a simple sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape...
Lurching from line to line, Steiger frequently ad-libbed his way through entire scenes-including most of a boozy encounter with Sidney Poitier in the sheriff's house. When the occasion calls for it, Steiger can stick to a script. In The Mark he played a psychiatrist and did not change a line-but improvised in other ways. Drawing on his five years of treatment in New York, he remembered two characteristics of his own analyst: "He had too many patients, and he was always exhausted." Steiger made the psychiatrist a chainsmoking, unshaven, love-haunted man -none of which...