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...rare indeed that a movie can move in on the American frontier without million-dollar razzle-dazzle, chunks of pseudohistory, and an unctuous salute to those who secured our Way of Life. Rachel is content to examine a small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...
...first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite, slap, kick, dance, sing...
Died. Major Edward Bowes, 71, whose carefully rehearsed, silk-smooth "Original Amateur Hour" (with the trademarked gong and the Major's unctuous "All right -all right") once had 20,000,000 faithful fans, and brought him nationwide fame & fortune; after long illness; in Rumson...
...thee, and overtake thee.' And suddenly, in the mild summer air, it seemed as if, like a swarm of bees inadvertently wakened, the blessings of the Old Testament were actually rushing after me. From the hot, remote, passionate past of Hebrew history, out of the Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors...
...solemn vows. There are other differences, too. But, canonically speaking, a nun and a sister are not the same thing. I have noticed before, and often too, that you have made this same mistake. Perhaps, though, as a stripteaser with a traveling carnival, I shouldn't correct your unctuous religion editor. But he often has burned me up in things like this...