Word: lawman
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Henry Fonda is an aging ex-sheriff, disillusioned with the lawman's life. Tony Perkins is a nice young Sunday-go-to-meetin' sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...
Stalking into a Los Angeles court in a Let-Them-Eat-Stanislavsky mood, torn-T-shirt-school Cinemactor Anthony Franciosa ground his teeth and glowered while a deputy city attorney recounted his misdeeds. Franciosa fractured the peace two months ago when, according to the lawman, he place-kicked a press photographer who was trying to snap him with his then great and good friend (now wife) shock-haired Cinemactress Shelley Winters. "It would not have been seemly to have had my picture taken with Miss Winters. I was still married," Franciosa explained after the fracas. When the prosecutor demanded that...