Word: stagecoach
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Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach...
...honest, simple working people. Well acted by a competent, unstarred cast, the picture is a credit to Director Ford, who is himself a big, rumpled, modest Celt (Irish) with a tidy mind, rock-ribbed integrity and a talent for turning out superb pictures (The Informer, Arrowsmith, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach). It is also his last picture-for the present. He is now on active duty with the U.S. Navy...
...Grey's last story, Western Union bears the sterling hallmark of sagebrush romance. When Outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), riding hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...
...married Mimosa Gates, a prospector's sister, soon headed south for California. In California came the whisper again: Gold in Nevada! Key Pittman arrived in Tonopah, Nev. by stagecoach, a journey colder and more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected...