Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers of his latest victim are moving in for their own revenge; a cocky young loafer is itching to win glory by beating...
...Eiffel Tower or the Grand-Guignol. His ideas, his loves and his wisecracks are as faithfully reported as the goings-on of any movie star. In the rest of the world he is almost as well known. His pictures hang in the world's most famed museums, and fetch prices as high as $50,000. Almost anywhere the mere mention of his name is enough to start a boiling controversy...