Word: varmint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hung low and wide, as a marshal's backside shouldn't. Not only that, but it was so close to the TV camera that it blotted out the scenery. Still, he was the marshal, and when he whipped his Colt from its holster and fired at the varmint standing at the other end of the dusty, deserted street, western fans could only suppose that things were back to normal. But on ABC's Maverick this week, nothing returned to normal. The marshal's first shot missed his man, and so did five more. Cried the varmint...
...regular Westerns. For instance, the devotion of the cowboy to his horse. That's a lot of nonsense. The two things a cowboy loves best are his saddle and his hat. And cowboy speech isn't full of things like 'shucks' and 'side-winding varmint.' What's more, the frontier marshals made mistakes sometimes, and they weren't always pure. The other week's show is a typical example. Matt Dillon [the hero] kills four guys and then is ashamed of himself...
...villain wears black and rides a black horse; the hero and his horse are both in white. ¶ Johnny Guitar (Republic) stars Joan Crawford as a sort of female Shane who shoots it out with Two-Gun Mercedes McCambridge. A lesser character, Scott Brady, plays "The Dancing Kid," a varmint who goes into a dance step just before he blazes away. ¶ The Black Knight (Columbia) a "medieval western," offers deadpan Alan Ladd as a knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns...
Lone Hand (Universal-International) suggests a number of disquieting thoughts to horse-opera fans: Is Joel McCrea, a rugged hero .who has been on the side of right in countless westerns, the varmint he seems to be in this particular oater? Is Joel in cahoots with a bunch of badmen who are holding up stagecoaches, robbing express offices and murdering sheriffs? And will Joel, as a result, lose the affections of his worshiping young son (Jimmy Hunt) and adoring wife (Barbara Hale...
Howard Hughes went after the Red varmint with both guns blazing...