Western stars revive the genre with new blood and mixed results
The piece notes how actors like Stewart Peck Taylor and O Keefe bring fresh life to Westerns, after Randolph Scott and Silent Joel dominated for years. Ambush shows both strong action and weak lapses as John Hodiak appears as a strict Army officer amid a landscape of rugged frontier tropes.
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Stewart
Joel McCrae
Winchester
Black Arrow
Peck
Robert Taylor
Taylor
John Hodiak
Regula
Girl composer of hits hopes someday to do score of first U. S. film
Ann Rowell, Hollywood’s only woman musical director, recalls how George Gershwin mentored her start after a Boston interview. She rose from rehearsal pianist to hit songwriter and film composer, scoring Love Happy with the Marx Brothers and The Story of GI Joe, and she aims to write the first American opera for film.
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Chicago
Ann Rowell
Hollywood
George Ca Cee
Radcliffe
Women’s Wear Daily
Ann
Gershwin
Boston
Teacheverts
New York
Omaha
Walt Disney
GI Joe
Lester Cowan
Marx Brothers
Marz Brothers
Harpo
The
Marxes
Vicki
Grand Hotel
Western film critique notes on Ambush and Red River
The reviewer dismisses the film Ambush for its thin female subplot and likens western heroines to a distracting “feminine touch.” They compare it unfavorably to Red River and lament Hollywood’s treatment of women in frontier stories while praising the gritty Diablito storyline and Cavalry pursuit. The piece ends with a quip about the Lonely Man.
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Red River
Diablito
Hollywood
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