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Ride, Vaquero! (MGM) makes the old horse operas on TV look good. It takes some of Hollywood's silkiest purses and, without half trying, promptly and efficiently turns them into sow's ears. It has a beautiful star (Ava Gardner), yet somehow manages to make her seem drab, and a basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow...
...help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs only a few weeks to set all the members of the household against each other: servants, artist's-model, wife & child fly apart like a fragmentation bomb, leaving her in complete possession of the artist...
...safety of his progressive régime Dictator Kemal was forced to put such arrant, desperate reactionaries to the sword. In one respect his own capital, progressive Angora, is retrograde. It no longer produces peerless Angora cats. But of all coats the Angora has still the longest, silkiest haired...