Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the Music Hall's scenic effects: rainfall (from pipes high above the stage); Niagara Falls (out of tanks of an agitated soap solution); a full-sized train that can disappear into the hills; a steam curtain that fills the stage with billowing clouds; an ocean freighter that is torpedoed, splits in two and sinks from sight. The stage has also held a swimming pool, a helicopter and 30 trained horses...
...Americans understood better than silver-haired Jack Moakley what the Oxford-Cambridge team was proving in its U.S. tour: that competition can be fun and that a good athlete does not have to train to razor fineness to make a respectable showing. This week, Bannister & Co. planned to do better against a combined Harvard-Yale squad, but their day in Cambridge, Mass, would not be spoiled if they...
Colorado Territory (Warner) sets long-legged Joel McCrea to work on an old plot in a handsome new location. This time McCrea is an outlawed train robber with a price on his head and the hope in his heart of becoming a simple rancher. Like many a sagebrush Robin Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang...
...offset its staleness, Territory has several passages of refreshing cinematic excitement. The train robbery has a pleasant flavor of old-style westerns. For admirers of the great outdoors, the shots of McCrea's flyspeck flight across a stupendous cliff face are alone worth the price of admission...
...picture's moral. Instead, he falls earnestly in love with a pert little war widow (Ann Sothern) who gives him a job in her roadside restaurant. After several reels of platonic romance and irresponsibility, the lotus-eating judge remembers that he is a married man and boards a train for Boston, intending to get a divorce. But by this time it is clear that he is actually going to resume the duties of a responsible citizen...