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Notable for its lack of continuous gun-play. "The Angel and the Badman" has painstakingly sidestepped one of the most overworked angles of current westerns with excellent results. Where the hero generally announces his fast draw in the first scene and proceeds to prove his point for ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script...
Completely ignoring the forty-year-old axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
...Olivia de Havilland, in accepting the Best Actress Award (for her work in To Each His Own), came onstage as gauzy and misty-eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...
...food by way of relief. Therefore, her supplies are diminishing alarmingly. I am most anxious for the baby's food to get off right away. If she had to go a day without the right food, we would all end up in the insane asylum. She is an angel with a temper that pierces eardrums, raises roofs, blasts buildings...
Jose Limón's girl friend had to drag him to his first modern dance recital. That was 17 years ago. He watched the great German dancer Harald Kreutzberg do his "Angel of Last Judgment," turned to the girl and said: "Charlotte, my God, that's what I want to do!" That kind of dancing, he decided, "looked like something a man could do without being ridiculous." Last week, looking far from ridiculous, Jose Limón and his company danced two of his infrequent recitals before sell-out crowds in New York. Critics now rank...