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...rolling stone that starts it all is The Good Guy (Robert Taylor)-he's the one with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite...
...Last Wagon (20th Century-Fox). "Oooo!" gasps Felicia Farr, "I didn't know Comanches kissed like this!" She is all alone on a butte with Richard Widmark, a renegade white raised by Indians, who promptly introduces her to some even more interesting Comanche customs. "Girls and ponies both," Widmark muses. "The younger you break 'em in the better . . . You been broke in yet?" Felicia says no, but it's obvious she'd like to be, especially after he tells her about a tepee lie has seen that is all of 20 feet across. But before they...
...United Artists) confirms the Hollywood truism that one scrappy Yank is more than a match for three brutal Nazis. Richard Widmark, an ex-war correspondent, big-game hunter and bestselling novelist, is tracked down in Mexico by Girl Reporter Jane Greer, whose assignment is to discover why he has stopped writing. Soon Widmark sobs out the terrible truth (while he was shooting lions in Africa, his wife and best friend were making beautiful music together). Jane is so moved that she starts back for Manhattan without her story. Aloft in Widmark's personal plane, the two of them crash...
...masterly bit of total recall, Widmark identifies his hosts as Nazi war criminals. Instead of telling them that if they would just go home everything would be forgiven, Widmark and Jane plunge into the jungle, pursued by the Nazis and their venomous wolf pack. The villains should have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...
Though failing in its overall effect, Cobweb has in its favor some sharply etched scenes, e.g., the dramatic clash of wills between Patient Kerr and Dr. Widmark during an analytic session. Veteran Lillian Gish, as a wig-wearing termagant determined to be on the winning side in any quarrel, gives the most stylish performance in the film...