Word: stagecoach
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...When in doubt," Director John Ford (Stagecoach) once dryly counseled an aspiring young moviemaker, "make a western." Since Hollywood has always been filled with doubt, the screen for half a century has been filled with skies that podnuhs reach fer, dust that another Indian bites, ranches that folks are meanwhile back at, and any number of 'ems that get cut off at the pass. In short, the West has produced almost as many clichés as cattle, and the quality of a western depends largely on how well the director handles the stock...
PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Hank Hawks (Ann Sheridan) and Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) put a stop to a stagecoach holdup, not realizing that it was carefully planned by Fellow Passenger Sir Richard (Patrick Horgan). He learns he will have to corral the Hawks family if he is going to succeed in the crime business...
...food, an excellent selection of wines and attentive service-plus one magic ingredient: setting. Whether the restaurant is placed among dark spruce and silver birch beside a mountain stream in Vermont (Manchester's Toll Gate Lodge) or beneath giant pecans and live oaks in Texas (Salado's Stagecoach Inn), it offers a view and a personality that its city cousins can never match...
Newfane Inn, Newfane, Vt. Built in 1787 as a stagecoach stop overlooking the common, owned since 1957 by French-born Chef Rene Chardain. Duck and trout, with quail and pheasant in the fall...
...Stagecoach Inn, Salado, Texas. Sam Houston and Jim Bowie knew it as a relay station for the Overland stages. Magnificent setting and a highly diversified menu, which includes such local favorites as banana fritters and hush puppies...