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\Cheyennef \/KookiltLawmanriCombined in 'Yellowstone KellytinTake three of television's most popular personalities, cast them together in an unusual and exciting story of frontier days and film it among some of the most spectacular mountain and desert scenery in America and the result Is a colorful, dramatic motion picture, packed with action andsuspense,These are the ingredients that have gone into Warner Bros! Technicolor production, • Yellowstone Kelly,** due Sunday at theCrest Theatre. The film re-createsthe story of America’s march west-waged by the Indians to defendtheir traditional hunting groundsagainst the invading white man.“Yellowstone Kelly also brings together for the first time in a motion picture three of TV’s greatest favorites, each of them astar in his own individual series. They are Clint Walker, who haswon a tremendous following as the star of Warner Bros.’ “Cheyenne TV series, Edward Byrnes, the “Rookie of “77 Sunset Strip, and John Russell, the popularDan Troon of “Lawman cTKPUbn* •acyASbdWALKERRussell, Edward Byrnes star inWarner Bros/ 'Yellowstone Kelly/' comilCrest Theatre. The Technicolor productpopulaCheyenne/' Lawman and77 Sunset StrdvThis roie is a switch for big Clint Walker, biggest actor, physically, in Hollywood, He stands 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 235 pound and looks every inch atough mountain man of the 1870’s.This film not only marks Edd Byrnes* first starring role in a Western, but is probably the first time he has ever been off the pavement. “Kookie doesn’t get a chance to park a car in this period piece about frontier days,but instead goes Western in a rough, tough, off-beat way. He plays Clint Walker's tenderfoot sidekick and has to ride a horse, throw’ a pack on a mule, fightbrawls with drunken soldiers andmake a stand against Indian war-Long John Russell has the biggest change-of-pace of the trio, for he plays Gall, Sioux war chief, and the transformation is startling. He makes up as the perfectIndian warrior type; lean, hawkfaced and utterly believable. In fact, Russell gives a performance as an Indian that will long be remembered.plays the role of Say a pi, a minor Indian chief who holds a murderous hatred for whites. He' is the real villain of the story. Others in the cast include Rhodes Reason. Claude Akins, Gary Vinson and Warrr.e Oates,oiilieP13An interesting fact about the eperhapsAndra Martin portrays the Indian girl, around whom much of the drama and action revolves.This beautiful young actress makes up into the most attractive Indian maiden ever brought to the screen and plays her scenes with great emotional appeal.physically, ever gathered to-Ibgether for theTherehis not a man among the principals under six feet tall, with Clint Walker 6 feet 6, John Russell 6 feet 4. and Rhodes Reason a midget 6 feet Sty!clJ ^nEGordon Douglas directed “Yel-riorsj Ray Danton, one of Hollywood’s iowstone Kelly” from a screen-i better young character actors, play by Burt Kennedy.bCutl
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Great Bend Sunday Tribune
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Sun, Sep 13, 1959
Page 18
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