Word: stagecoach
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...Star (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is presented as a very special breed of horse opera-something the publicists call a "people western." What the moviemakers are trying to say is that the stagecoach trade should hang onto its ten-gallon hats because the characters portrayed are actually intended to resemble real human beings. They don't. Oats is oats, and the only distinctive thing about this bin of them is that they happen to be of a right good grade...
...simulated flight through space; a 25? piece buys a skyway ride to Fantasyland, reposing behind" Sleeping Beauty's moated castle, where still another ride whisks visitors over a make-believe London, Never-Never Land and Captain Hook's Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers...
Like the man who first honeymooned at Niagara Falls, Murphy was a daring young American who was only trying to make good. He was a farm boy newly arrived in San Francisco when the idea dawned on him; he had previously been a stagecoach driver, undertaker, deputy sheriff. Bedding manufacturers snapped at his scheme, and by 1910 were producing 250,000 Murphy beds a year. But the bed became far more than just a commercial success when the budding movie colony saw in it a hilarious prop for slapstick comedy. By the mid-1920s, Murphy and his disappearing...
Shotgun in hand, six-shooters at his sides, Wyatt Earp (rhymes with burp) rode coolly this week into a Dodge City dirt street crackling with the bullets of the Old West's 30 top gunmen, hired as killers by two feuding stagecoach lines. He rode on the highest saddle in TV-third place (after the Ed Sullivan Show and / Love Lucy) in the latest Trendex popularity ratings for all U.S. network television...
...named as Emmy candidates for "best actor in a continuing series" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford's Stagecoach. On the air it owes its start to the radio version of Gunsmoke, which began in 1952. Some adult...