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mUMOOjJf SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STABNovember *1, 1U4Escapade Among Modoc Indians Stars Alan LaddTito LoveliesAn Indian girl aavea Alan Ladd—for lovely Audrey Dalton, ahown with her laddie. Varsity Tuesday. B«kw. ,Joan Collins, London-born beauty, portrays Egyptian Princess Nellifer in “Land of the Pharaohs. l Joan is a Howard Hawks find, Kiftat.In Varsity’s Color Thrillerif JOE FITZ GERALD /* Swrfty Staff WriterLadd stars in his first Cinemascope thriller, “Drum Beat/,1 Yhich will open Tuesday” at^ the Varaity. Filmed in Warner Color, 'Drum Beat” features two leading ladies, Audrey Dalton and Mariaa Farm.“Drum Beat is the story of the Modoc Indian war of 1869 in Northern California.The story is personalized mainly through two characters, Johnny MacKay, a frontier scout, and Cap-thin Jack, eccentric and wily lead-erTof the Modoc Indians who liked t6 dress in stolen uniforms and affect a military title. Alan Ladd is Johnny MacKay. Charles Bronson, one-time Pennsylvania coal miner and a specialist in “heavy roles, plays the 'Indian leader.Miss Dalton portrays the role of one of Alan Ladd’s sweethearts, Marisa Pavan, twin sister of Pier Angeli, essays the role of an Indian maiden who loves Ladd.•MacKay is sent into the Cali-fomia-Oregon border territory to negotiate a peace' treaty with the Modoc Indians who had'gone on the warpath against the settlements near the lava caves and Superstition Mountain. Lured into , ambush by Captain Jack, a renegade Modoc leader, Ladd . . .‘The Last Time I Saw Paris’Things have taken a. turn for Elizabeth Taylor. Long considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she is belatedly getting recognition as one of the film colony’s finer actresses.“People have been inclined to★ ★ ★1overlook Elizabeth’s stature as a dramatic actress because of her outstanding looks, states Stewart Granger, who co-starred with her in “Beau Brummell ”He recalled being seated with Miss Taylor in the M-G-M commissary recently when, finishing her lunch, she left to return to the set of her newest picture, “The Last Time I Saw Pans, which is now at the Lincoln, she gaily invited Granger to visit her set.«n Airor 3} cho★ ★ ,★body away from the set/ It was 3list another scene for her, even though it was the only death scene she had enacted except for one as a child player. But Elizabeth wrings your heart out with her performance/* 1cJesse James’ Women’Jesse James, tram robber, is a likely candidate for honors as the least neglected outlaw in the his-nf fhn pnnnfrv fVtnPs nnpms.★ ★ ★with the possible exception of one —his love life.The omission is now remedied. The remedy is a Technicolor film, “Jesse James’ Women, opening Sunday at the State. Don Barry, Peggie Castle, Jack Beutel and Lita Barop are co-starred.As opposed to the average hero of a western film, who rarely kisses the girl, Jesse James in the picture is a regular kissing fool. In all, he makes torrid love to seven beautiful e»ls. all of whom★ ★ ★sion, as Red Barry, plays the role of the notorious outlaw in “Jesse James’ Women.”Peggie Castle is Waco Gans, a blond and beautiful saloon keeper quick on the draw with an unladylike six-shooter; Lita Baron is a singer in Miss Castle’s frontier gmmill; and Jack Beutel is Jesse’s brother Frank.CO-FEATUEE: “The Golden Mistress,” starring John Agar and Rosemarie Bowe. Untamed love, voodoo secrets, hnan-fish battle.
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Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Nov 28, 1954
Page 46
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Joplin P.
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