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...Distant Trumpet is a far cry from the grand old westerns of yesterday. Taken from Paul Morgan's engrossing historical novel, which told how U.S. cavalrymen in the 1880s subdued one of the last powerful Apache chiefs, the movie plays down the drama of the great Southwest, plays up three bright young faces from Beverly Hills. All that fuss about redskins seems picayune compared with the plight of Lieut. Troy Donahue. Setting femmes aflutter at Fort Delivery, Ariz., Troy bestrides a flesh-and-blood horse, but his acting is appropriately wooden. He is an animated Ken doll with golden...
...Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes...
...really, as it turns out. The Khyber Pass becomes old West Injun country, British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load...
...second-rate men who took him for a leader. To Booth, the cause of the South was the cause of gentlemen, and above all the little actor wanted to be recognized as a gentleman-to the very end, when he offered to fight it out with the troop of cavalrymen who surrounded him in a Virginia tobacco barn...
...Sierra Madre. Curiously, the battlescapes are poorly drawn, and may result from Horgan's dour knowledge that the Apaches invariably melted away when confronted with regular troops. Unfortunately for the balance of his book, the weight of a growing nation and the determination of Hazard and his cavalrymen seem excessive when they are opposed by only a handful of barbaric and ill-equipped savages...