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By Dudley Ferly'She Wore A Yellow RibbonUfMfrun lt;i c ebv ?ohner. directed byreeoa;*y by Frank Nugen S i a!«i n * s.Now pUymt »t Jt. h f P a r a m cumtJ I 1 I 4 uBrit tiesOS i V ;aTheater..... Jhon Waynr Joanne Dru John AgarMighty Joe Young' and whoseperformance shouldn't have happened to a two-bit western. i.s so good in his role that one can onl watching him on the screenforlorn hope—there were'ohn Fords making movies It was once said in Hollv\that—morenon n frole tnJohnMany moons ago, when John F ■ : • st hitting the peak onwhich he has remained for so long, he picked up a practically unknown young man who had not done so well in movies since his graduation from the football team of the University of Southern California where, a* Duke Morrison, he was anall -conference lineman.He gave this young man, now called John Wayne, the leading his production, “Stagecoach Wayne turned in a fine performance iii a fine picture.Since that time Wayne ha* appeared in almoet every picture Ford has made. When he is not under Ford s direction, he is a poor anor. But when he goes back into th» Ford fold he turns in consistently good performancesIn ‘She Wore a Yellow* Ribbon he is nothing *hort of auperb. Itis a performance that »hould, in allright, be a challenger for the Academy award. He dominates thefilm from beginning to end, as an elderly Army captain in the day* following Custer's defeat who is due to retire in a few day» after the picture opens. He goes on his last patrol, fads in his mission; then, in his last few* hours in the Army, averts a large scale Indian war.There is a romance between Joanne Dru. niece of the commanding officer, George O'Brien, and two lieutenants. John Agar and Harry Carey Jr, but that is incidental. It is Wa.vn* all the wav through which, in view of his very ordinary act ng m other films not directed by Ford een onlv mean tha* it i* Ford. So this department salutes John Ford for an excellent film and for making John Wayne actThe picture has flaws, one of th* m be eng that the patrol sequence is too long, and another that the ending is too convenient, needing some explanation where there isnone.Victor McLaglen, as Wayne's top sergeant is held down by Ford so th u he doey not mug all over the place and, consequently, is welcome comedy relief, as it is sometimescalled in pictureland Ben Johnson who was last seen in Austin inErtch von Stroheim that “he can make a fence post act. Move over.Von, you've got company—one John Ford.The writing is very good, but that is to be expected with Laurence Stallings having been one of the two writers of the screenplay. Stallings, in case you have forgotten, wrote ‘What Price Glory'’'Ye$, Sir, That's My Baby'A Universal International picture, produced bv Leonard OoMstein. directed by George Sherman «»■ i ecnplay bv p-«u h Brodnev Now \ a yin* at the Stale the* terWin tit id ............Hartley ......Sarah JantDonald O Connor Charles Coburn Gloria De Hav e nreport that this a concoction asWe are aorry tois about as aillyhas yet come out of Hollywood. It purports to tell of ex-GI s in college whose wives won’t let them plav football because a ailly woman professor who is a feminist—thanwhich, In the opinion of this writer, there is nothing sillier on earth— preaches to the empty-headedwives overthrow of male domination.As usual with feminists, the professors feminism is a defense mechanism against having a normal love , life for whatever cause. When that situation is resolved, she ceases to be a feminist.But the story is ridiculous and the gags are good for groans. Donald O'Connor does one good dance remindful of Fred Astaire (in routine onlv The songs are undis-; tinguished. Charles Coburn iswastedSupreme Court JusticeTo Undergo OperationAssociate Justice J. H. Harvev of Texas Supreme Court will leave j Sunday for Rochester, Minn., where i be will undergo an operation at1 Mayo Clinic.Ha was at his office Friday, having returned from his former home, j Texarkana, where he had preitml-i nary surgery several days ago.Judge Harvey, formerly of the Texarkana Court of Civil Appeals, has been a member of the Supreme I Court since last January.i
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Austin American
Austin, Texas, US
Sat, Nov 05, 1949
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