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-ft "THE SEARCHERS"
Warner Bros.
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood. Producer, Merian C. Cooper. Director, John Ford.
The John Ford hallmark, coupled with the John Wayne boxomce power, shoves this western drama proud head and broad shoulders over its ilk, places it in the select category of distinguished outdoor films like "Shane", "Red River" and "Stagecoach." Earmarked by Film BULLETIN as a Film of Distinction, "The Searchers" is an offbeat, intriguing film that combines high drama, suspense and sharp comedy relief with su
perb performances, inimitable Ford direction and Technicolor-Vistavision photography. This first C. V. Whitney-Merian C. Cooper production leaves no doubt of its high position among the Spring Leaders. Frank S. Nugent's screenplay delineates in alternately shocking, moving and humorous moods the relentless search by Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter for the former's niece, carried off by Comanches who had slaughtered the rest of Wayne's family. After futile years of leads and dead ends, the search narrows as the fearful Wayne determines to kill the girl rather than have her succumb to the ways of the Indian. As the suspense mounts, the girl is discovered and the searchers must make the decision whether to take her back to her own people.
"THE MAN WHO KNEW TOD MUCH"
Paramount
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles. Producer-director, Alfred Hitchcock.
Hitchcock, master of suspense, with one of his favorite stars, James Stewart, in the type of thriller at which the former is most adeot, sets off "The Man Who Knew Too Much" as Paramount's most promising Spring release. Foreign intrigue, tingling with Hitchcockian incidents and touches, laid in French Morocco and England, plus VistaVision and Technicolor are chief ingredients. The core of the plot is a natural for the thrill maestro: a scheduled assassination, the only hint as to the victim being the time and the place whispered words by a dying man to Stewart, who must keep his silence while his
young son is held hostage. How the distraught father and his wife, Doris Day, maintain their secret, ferret out the plotters, prevent the assassination and rescue their son is ideal fodder for the Hitchcock maneuverings.
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