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Producer Schary still has reel on reel of bleeding buffalo to get into the picture. Besides, Debra has to clear her name. First it is revealed that the papoose is not hers-she was simply baby-sitting for a friend. Next, astonished moviegoers learn that Taylor has not been making very determined passes at the girl when they retire each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night...
...days of the Czar. For the days of the commissars, the Soviets did less well, e.g., An Unfinished Novel (Lenfilm), in which all the resources of Soviet medicine fail to cure a paralyzed engineer, but when the girl doctor of his dreams rushes to his bedside in the last reel, he walks again...
...Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter about Hollywood, which kept him dangling for nearly a decade: "When I did work in pictures, I was always Blinky, the hero's best friend. I was the one in the last reel who tells Betty Grable that the guy really loves her." Phil began to circle cautiously around television a year ago. NBC offered to star him in some Spectaculars, but he refused: "So you make a big hit in a Spectacular - the next day you're the forgotten...
...others majestically slowly. By contrast, the pipers shook the crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike sword dance. By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed...
...equally as skillful as an author. The dialogue does tend to run into long speeches in the early scenes, but that fault is soon balanced by a good many funny--and not inappropriate--scenes. He handled the development of characters well, too. Not until late in the last reel does the audience really know all about...