Word: macmurrays
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Rangers of Fortune (Paramount) is a dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom...
Only attempt to part the war clouds was the opening of Don Dickerman's Pirate's Den around the corner from Slapsie Maxie Rosenblooms screwball restaurant. Under festoons of fish nets and anchor chains Stockholders Rudy Vallee, Fred MacMurray, Errol Flynn, Jimmie Fidler (in pirate costume), Johnny Weissmuller, Ken Murray (in pirate costume) and others fed (at $7.50 a head) decorative celebrities and the prominent press. Among the 400 eaters: Hearst's Polly Prying Louella Parsons, Columnists Ed Sullivan and Jimmie Fidler, Comic Jack Benny, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (his balding head swathed in a pirate...
...very unfortunate event. Otherwise it is an amiable historical biography of Robert Fulton, who tries and tries and tries and finally produces a steam boat (without sails) that MOVES! Richard Green is acting more like Robert Taylor in every picture--and hence is under suspicion. But Fred MacMurray gives one of his better performances. Not a bad picture, on the whole, but not a terribly good one, either...
...have been built to the original plans, and Hollywood shows years of experience in reproducing the saloons and docks of New York of every age. Alice Faye feels right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into a magnificent shipbuilder. Harriet Livingston, in the delightful person of Brenda Joyce, is the recipient of the best remark of a fair script, when Fulton, self introduced, says "Miss Livingston, J presume." Incidentally, they get married...
Barbara Stanwyck is a beautiful woman, when she can keep her hair from falling down in front of her face. Fred MacMurray isn't a bad sort of a guy, especially when he is playing, as in "Remember the Night," a local boy from the Wabash country of Indiana who has made good in the big city as an assistant district attorney. The two of them together have been able to do a lot for this over-sweet litle romance; some who have seen it say it made them remember all the girls they had ever been in love with...