Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild North (MGM) revives that familiar old figure of fresh-air fiction, the Canadian Mountie (Wendell Corey) who is out to get his man. In this version the quarry is a killer (Stewart Granger) who, as it turns out, has done his shooting in self-defense. On the way back, a wolf pack takes a few bites out of Corey, and Granger ends up by bringing in the Mountie. Also present: a beautiful Indian girl (Cyd Charisse) who is fond of Granger. There are vivid color shots of the snowy north country and several lusty action scenes, but The Wild...
...Advocate's story contest has added a great deal to the issue. Two of three stories which won prizes are well-written and entertaining. My only argument with the Advocate in its choosing Joyce Leonard's Hand to the plow and Donald Stewart's Dennis Gray for the first two awards is a disagreement in the order of preference. I think that Stewart's is the better story...
...first confrontment with homosexuality and abnormal punishment. Dennis Gray, a student in a small prep school, is a finely-drawn character, whose nerves tighten at every small crisis. The tremendous tension created in a single afternoon snaps his recuperative mechanism so that he must build it all over again. Stewart's style in this piece is especially interesting, since he changes it sharply at the climax, switching from a rambling impressionistic picture to sharp realistic prose. This method is well meant, but I think it tends to weaken the story structurally. The impressionism overbalances the beginning, making the conclusion...
...marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
Scaramouche (M-G-M), based on Rafael Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist...