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...year-old Lee and Chief Paladino went back to Tokyo, got a valid visa and made the trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair of cowboy six-shooters, which he quickly buckled on. Lee responded with one of his few English words...
...horse opera has changed since the good old days (Buck Jones, Tom Mix) when a cowboy preferred his horse to a girl. Today's westerns are different. As a result of the success of Shane and High Noon, Hollywood last week was busy with no less than 22 variations on the same theme. Some of them: ¶ Hondo (Warner Bros.) is a Shane-type hero played by John Wayne. Says Producer Robert Fellows: "There is a reminder of Shane in this picture, but it is . . . just a coincidence. However, we purposely did alter the horse-opera formula a little...
Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...
Montana knew just how to honor a favorite painter of the Old West. Last year people throughout the state chipped in $75,000 for a museum to show the work of the late Charles Marion Russell, the cowboy who exchanged the lariat for the brush (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the museum was dedicated in Great Falls, and if modest Charlie Russell could have seen it, he would have grumbled and told people they were making too much of a fuss...
Hannah Lee (Jock Broder Productions) refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down...