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PETE HARRIS
THE TRUE NORTH: One of the burdens several generations of Canadians have had to bear is the standard Hollywood view of this country as an untamed wilderness of snow, ice and pine trees populated by isolated pockets of redcoated Mounties, mad French Canadian trappers, comely half-breed wenches and dour but basically kindly Scottish trading post proprietors, Pierre Berton even wrote an entire book, Hollywood's Canada, on the subject. And, just when it seemed as though the problem was on its way to being subdued, what crops up in the New York Daily News this week but several photos of a contingent of red-coated Mounties, horses and all, who were in the Big Apple for the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, Geeze, I thought, there goes another generation of Americans who'll grow up believing Canada is an untamed wilderness of snow, ice and pine trees etc etc. Fortunately, though, two of the News' writers-Peter Coutros and Lawrie Mifflin--sought to keep the record straight by pointing out that the principal occupation of the RCMP is more akin to the work of the FBI, not galloping through the north woods in pursuit of Mad Baptiste, Thanks Peter, thanks Lawrie, and if you're ever up this way, drop into the fort for some pemmican,
* * %* THE SAGEBRUSH TRAIL: There's an intriguing advertisement in the Oct. 20 Variety for a new compilation movie called Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch,., and scheduled for Christmas release, Produced by Patrick Curtis, written, directed and edited by Richard Patterson, with associate producers Packy Smith, Dick Stewart and Mike Marx, the film will feature such people as Buck Jones, Gene Autry, William Boyd, Wild Bill Elliott, Roy Rogers, Ken Maynard, John Wayne, Charles Starrett, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Tex Ritter, Tim McCoy, George O'Brien, Allan Lane, Don "Red" Barry, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Mitchum, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lash La Rue, Duncan Renaldo, Eddie Dean, Tom Tyler, Buster Crabbe, Tim Holt, Raymond Hatton, Sunset Carson, Monte Hale, Tom Mix, Harry Carey, Rod Cameron, Russell Hayden, Gabby Hayes, Fuzzy St. John, Smiley Burnette, Dub Taylor, Fuzzy Knight, Bobby Blake, Noah Beery, The Three Mesquiteers, The Rough Riders, The Range Busters, Andy Devine, Ward Bond and Yakima Canutt, The best part of the ad, though, is the line: "Principal photography completed. ..July 1947,"
= * * SON OF THE SAGEBRUSH TRAIL: After a couple of less than enthralling entries, The Great Movie Cowboys series on Buffalo's ch, 17 Friday nights (repeated the following Wednesday at 11:30 p.m.) is back on the track Nov. 19 with Don't Fence Me In, a 1945 Republic with Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Dale Evans and Robert Livingston, a movie about which Don Miller said in Hollywood Corral; "(Director John) English was at his best with Don't Fence Me In (1945), which had the Cole Porter tune going for it and an ingenious plot featuring 'Gabby' Hayes as a retired outlaw incognito,.."