Word: stagecoach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil Riders, a stagecoach driver was burned to death and a cliff dynamited to bury alive a group at its base...
Fiore hopes to settle in the U.S. She likes big group sculpture, and feels the U.S. is just the place for it: "First because they have money. And then, places like Texas, why, they must want big group pieces, perhaps a stagecoach in the square." Her first American project will be on a smaller scale: a head of Adlai Stevenson...
...Jaguar (by N. Richard Nash) seethed with action, pulsed with meaning, and added up to nothing. Closing at week's end, it told a melodramatic movie yarn that-loaded down with symbolism -made a lumbering stagecoach. The yarn, laid in mountain country, concerned a crusading young schoolmaster's struggle against the local villain who tyrannized over people, gobbled up property, caged up animals. Crux of the struggle was a hunt for an unworldly youth fleeing with a $900 inheritance. As a western, Jaguar lacked life because even its gunplay suggested a morality play. As serious drama...
...noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut and sense-making horse opera that deserves to rank with Stagecoach and The Gunfighter as one of the best westerns ever made...
...booking desk he emptied his pockets, received an ill-fitting blue denim uniform to replace his elegant double-breasted grey flannel suit. Soon, reported a turnkey, No. 22487 was "sleeping like a baby" in the upper bunk of cell 10A2 on the twelfth floor. Hollywood Producer Walter (Stagecoach) Wanger, 57, a suave man with "no previous arrests," had begun what he called his "summer vacation...