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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1950
Page
5
The article notes Kibo, a snow capped summit, located roughly 200 miles south of the equator in Africa. It emphasizes its high elevation and proximity to the equatorial region.
In Jack Benny's first film production The Lucky Stiff at United Artists, Dorothy Lamour and Claire Trevor star opposite Brian Donlevy. Lamour's character, a night club singer, is accused of murder and sentenced to die by electric chair, then returns as a ghost. Trevor plays Donlevy’s devoted secretary torn by unrequited love.
In the Hamp Fisher cartoon adaptation Humphrey enters the Joe Palooka series starring Leon Errol and Joe Kirkwood. Robert Coogan plays the 265 pound zany, Pamela Blake debuts as Anne Howe, with Errol in a dual role as Palooka’s manager and the manager of a British fighter.
Intrigue in the shark fishing business off the Mexican coast fuels Monogram's Killer Shark starring Roddy McDowall. The Lindsley Parsons production, shot near Ensenada, follows a college student who causes his father financial loss and indirectly endangers crew members after joining the shark hunts.
John J. Malone, the sharp attorney-detective, enjoys the attention of lamourous women and thriving business. He even finds a whimsical cache of money, claiming he can pluck fifteen hundred dollars from a geranium plant.
The famed Winchester 73 rifle, linked to Custer era history and a sheriff posse killings, stars in Universal International's Winchester 73 opening today at the Princess Theatre with James Stewart Shelly Winters Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally in the cast Stewart reportedly nears purchase of the gun after filming the finale where he shoots the villain McNally.
Film notices declare 20th Century Fox comedy When Willie Comes Marching Home opens Thursday at Princess Theatre. Dan Dailey stars as Bill Kluggs a hometown hero who must remain in the United States as an instructor while others go to war, then returns decorated.
Rhonda Fleming stalls as one of the screen's outstanding action stars after stellar work with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Dennis O'Keefe is said to deliver an exciting portrayal as a straight shooting government agent.
Paramount's Technicolor epic The Eagle and the Hawk arrives next Thursday at the Roxy. John Payne Rhonda Fleming and Dennis O'Keefe star in a Pine-Thomas pre production based on a historical Civil War era chapter with Maximilian of Mexico and a planned Texas invasion. The film portrays a dramatic Allied resistance to the invasion threat and highlights Payne as a top box office draw.
The article notes John Ford directed When Willie Comes Marching Home with screenplay by Mary Loos and Richard Sale from a story by Sy Gomberg. It mentions special musical sequences by Ford to showcase Dan Daily and cites Ford's previous triumphs Stagecoach The Informer The Long Voyage Home and My Darling Clementine.
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