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Scaramouche (M-G-M), based on Rafael Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist...
...border, a fancy men's club restricted to desperadoes who want rest and relaxation between their brushes with the law. While Kennedy tries to decide which of the resident badmen killed his girl, Marlene sings throatily, lazily crosses her beautiful legs, and looks sultry. She also irritates Gunman Mel Ferrer by going on moonlight walks with Kennedy and murmuring such sweet nothings as "I wish you'd go away and come back ten years...
Rancho ends in a predictable crescendo of six-shooters. Marlene brings the competence of long experience to her role of an aging seductress, Mel Ferrer is suitably dashing as "the fastest draw in the West," and Arthur Kennedy is all right as the vengeful lover, but he should not have been required to outrage Dietrich fans by delivering moral preachments...
When word got back to the town that it had been chosen for such dubious distinction, Mel Ruder, 36, founder-editor of the Hungry Horse News, took immediate issue. Himself a consistent reader of TIME since the eighth grade, Ruder decided to conduct an investigation to learn whether Hungry Horse hungered for TIME treatment of the news...
...special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...