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...tennis fans, the Cochell outburst was no surprise. His bad manners on the court and his rows with umpires and linesmen have earned him a reputation as a Peck's Bad Boy of the courts. Nonetheless, his stinging serve, precise volleying and inelegant but powerful ground strokes have at one time or another beaten most of the topnotchers in current U.S. tennis. Alrick Man Jr., non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team, is well aware of Cochell's ability. So is the committee. But, said Man last week: "We felt Earl's behavior would not make...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
...Outlaw Peck has the fastest draw in the West and a dozen killings to prove it; but at 35 he is worn, broke and 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...
...plot closes in inexorably, always pointing up the tantalizing question of just how & when Peck will die. By concentrating the action largely in one place and within a few hours, Director Henry King gets considerable tension while generally avoiding the risk that things may get somewhat static for a movie...
...film also offers some tangy humor, able performances (notably by Actors Peck and Mitchell) and a sense of period and locale, right down to Peck's droopy mustache. But, like its outlaw hero, it comes to a bad end. Its plausible air lasts until the final scenes; then the hero goes out of character and the picture goes off on a little sentimental jag to treat him like...