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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1952
Page
6
Randolph Scott leads a western comedy program with Bagdad drama this week at the Princess. Highlights include a blues number How Little We Know penned by Car michael and Johnny Mercer sung by Miss Bacall in a rafe scene.
The 1870s Nevada adventure Carson City opens at the Princess Theatre today starring Randolph Scott with Lucille Norman Raymond Massey and Richard Webb in supporting roles. Scott plays a railroad construction engineer facing sabotage and murder as he helps deliver ore from the Comstock Lode while a mountain ledge chase climaxes the film. The drama introduces the Campaign Bandits an outlaw troupe who rob stagecoaches and briefly spare passengers to curry goodwill.
Paul Douglas plays Guffy McGovern, a rough Pirates manager softened by faith and a serendipitous child and an angel. Janet Leigh portrays Jennifer Paige as the tenacious reporter guiding his transformation. Keenan Wynn appears as a sports caster in this heartwarming baseball comedy.
Passengers in the era often stayed quiet about the robbers as many were tipsy or kindly disposed toward the bandits and offered little information to law officers, limiting early investigations.
The Pride Of St. Louis brings Dizzy Dean’s rise from barefoot pitcher to baseball great. Dan Dailey plays Dean in Cardinal uniform delivering strong comedy and Fulton moments. Joanne Dru portrays Dizzy’s wife adding romance and charm to the film.
Warner Bros re releases the Howard Hawks adventure romance To Have And Have Not opening Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre. Bogart and Bacall star with Welter Brennan and Hoagy Carmichael in a tale of a bold adventurer and a complex romance set against political intrigue in Vichy Martinique.
Frank Sinatra returns to the screen in Universal-International’s Meet Danny Wilson opening at the Roxy. Shelley Winters and Alex Nicol co star with Raymond Burr as a nightclub operator. Eight Sinatra songs anchor a melodramatic tale of ambition love and danger.
The estimate highlights significant annual timber losses in the United States with fires consuming more than 460 million cubic feet of timber each year.
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