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Died. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 39, professional guerrilla and long-missing Castro sidekick who hoped to Communize South America; of gunshot wounds; in Bolivia (see THE WORLD...
Wayne this time plays an indestructible loner hired by a greedy cattle baron to gun down the drunken but law-abiding sheriff of El Dorado, Texas. When the Duke discovers that the intended victim is actually his tough old sidekick (Robert Mitchum), he and his horse head for the hills, and for a series of picaresque encounters with some memorable bit players, including a snake-eyed reptile of a gunslinger (Edward Asner) and a garrulous old Injun fighter (Arthur Hunnicutt). The cattleman hires the gunman to knock off Mitchum, and Wayne comes roaring back to town to help the good...
...series as Flipper and Daktari has made animals his livestock in trade (TIME, June 16), combines two supposedly potent ingredients into one wide-screen epic: The Dark Continent and the Wild West. In Africa, the world's champeen rodeo rider (Hugh O'Brian) and his Navaho sidekick come to Kenya to round up a bunch of wild beasts for an altruistic rancher (John Mills). Object: to create a meat source for the protein-poor Masai...
This kind of realism can be carried to riduculous extremes, as a freak exponent of the genre--The Spy with a Cold Nose--attempts to prove. Here the spy, played by Lionel Jeffries, has a nagging wife, a nitwit sidekick, a deaf secretary in her second childhood, and an office not unlike one of your local Chinese laundries. But though the wit lasts about forty-five minutes, the film's running time is considerably longer...
...jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals can be sure of work. Even Frank Sinatra Jr. sits in, tussling with a sappy role as Davis' sidekick, and Peter Lawford is improbably cast as "Manny," the hardhearted booking agent...