Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAGON. A standard western that has style and gusto, thanks to Old Pros John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and the taut direction of Burt Kennedy...
...WAGON. This standard western has style and gusto, thanks to Old Pros John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and the taut direction of Burt Kennedy...
...action was. He liked to say that he had been stoned in Sumatra, shot in Laos, charged with bayonets in Java. "You have to stick your neck out a mile," he explained. "That is why this kind of program isn't done very often." His documentaries were taut, full of action, rarely bland. During the fighting in Jordanian Jerusalem, Yates was supervising a camera crew from the doorway of the Intercontinental Hotel. When a volley of firing began, everyone else ducked. Yates, typically, raised his head to see what was going on-and was struck by a bullet...
Derivative as it is, War Wagon moves with surprising force and pace, thanks to Burt Kennedy's taut direction and his cast of old pros. Wayne at 60, and Douglas at 50, can still invest any screenplay with style and gusto. This time they flesh out a standard western with too much gristle and cartilage-but, happily, without an ounce...
R.A.F. Handlebars. A cautious, conservative hunter when he is in the air, Olds leads a three-squadron Phantom wing whose 60 planes have knocked out 22 of the 72 MIGs downed over North Viet Nam to date (v. 20 U.S. fighters lost in aerial combat). Tall and taut at 6 ft. 2 in. and 195 lbs., Olds weighs 10 lbs. less than he did as an All-America tackle on West Point's 1943 football team, has recently sprouted a chestnut R.A.F.-style handlebar mustache that horrified his wife, former Movie Actress Ella Raines, when she visited her husband...