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Actors Stanley and Redford pump fresh air into Krasna's saggy script, especially its laugh-shy first act. But they cannot camouflage the fact that this type of play has long been outgrown by just about everyone whose first love was not a box office...
...from dead. Both the actors and the jokes come and go so fast that it is easier to rate them, not for quality, but in terms of smiles-per-hour. In fact, many of the jokes are soggy burps that might well have been planted in the script by a secret agent from Canada Dry. But many more, as usually happens in pictures written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. ("Izzy") Diamond, have edge and temper. Cagney's wife (Arlene Francis): "But she can't stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know...
...least one of the 19 questions that Kennedy fielded was not in the script. "Could you enlighten us sir." asked Jack Horner of the Washington Star, "as to why you're not having these press conferences more frequently-especially as to anything in particular you don't like about them?" Kennedy's response was revealing. "Well, I like them." he began; then he added hesitantly: "Sort...
Plot ain't much. By James Edward Grant (The Alamo) and Clair Huffaker, out of a novel by Paul I. Wellman, the script describes how John Wayne and Stuart Whitman make buzzard meat out of, oh, about 700 greasy renegades-yellow-bellied skunks running guns to the Comanches. (Actually, Big John does the job by himself. Stu is like the human figure beside the geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman...
...mine. For the rest of your life you have to think: This isn't my son, it's my little brother." The heroine buys that pea-brained proposition and its chuckleheaded corollary: she can never wed because she could never leave her brother. For this problem the script provides a solution that has at least the merit of originality. The baby catches fire-no kidding, the dear little fellow really catches fire and blazes away on the screen for quite a while. But somehow, after two hours of watching the trouble he's made...