Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1957)

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Forty Guns" Su4iH£44 &<XtCK$ O O Plus Actionful western with Barbara Stanwyck as hard-riding cattle queen. Will satisfy outdoor element. Barbara Stanwyck is riding the ranges once again as a strutting cattle queen in Samuel Fuller's latest entry, "Forty Guns". Since Fuller, as writer-producer-director, knows how to fourflush the most standard of Western poker games and Miss Stanwyck can shoot it out or sob it up with the best of them, tumbleweed devotees should find this actionful 20th-Fox entrv a very satisfying escapade. Fuller has provided enough scenic scampering and skullduggery against a black and white CinemaScope setting for his Arizona 1880 varn, and the cast headed by star Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Fricson and Gene Barry, give pungently professional performances. Admittedly, the dramatics play second fiddle to all the gun and leather gymnastics, but it is performed and directed with zest that will win action audience approval. As a hard-as-nails beauty with a shock proof heart and a torch singer's voice, Miss Stanwyck can make a stronger sex snap to attention in barnyard or saloon and runs her little town like a tribal matriarch. Dean Jagger is her hand picked sheriff, John Fricson her bellicose brother, and forty odd bronco busters are her guard of honor. Federal men Sullivan and Barn ride down main street looking for one of the lady's knights and soon things are really breaking open. Naturally no one bothers to help the law officers and instead plague them with bum steers, threats, ambushes and bursts of gunshots. Nevertheless, Sullivan makes hot time with boss Stanwyck. When Barry is brutally murdered and Jagger and Ericson go after Sullivan, Miss Stanwyck sees the errors of her w ays. 20th Century-Fox. 80 Minutes. Barbara Stanwyck. Barry Sullivan. Dean Jagger Produced and Directed by Samuel Fuller. "A Man Escaped'* '8*<MmC44 1R*u«f O O © Rating for art houses. Arresting French suspense film. Writer-director Robert Bresson's "Journal Of A Country Priest" was a memorable avant-garde opus and his current "A Man Escaped" proves equally arresting. It will be hailed by discriminating art film patrons as a distinguished film. For M. Bresson has taken a concentration camp logbook tale of WWII and made from it a muted tour-de-force of suspense that is one of the most rewarding in years. And he has brought forth his hairbreadth touches within the full panoply of the feckless world of prison life where the inhabitants await their country's defeat or their own death. Into this world arrives a young French lieutenant, whose indomitable will and hope signals a remarkable plan of escape that becomes a symbol of life, not only to him but also to his confederates. It is the plan thac serves as the plot of the film and we watch its growth within the lieutenant's mind as it follows through all stages of execution. A spoon initiates the proceedings: he scrapes it to a fine edge on the floor of his cell and then uses it to prod inch by inch the oak planks that make up his locked door. He is constantly watched, his confederates become suspect, collaboration is rife and a French teenager is dumped in as his cell mate. How the lieutenant tests the loyalty of the boy and how they finally successfully perform their coup is directed by Bresson with a masterful flow of magnetism. Continental Distributing. 94 Minutes. Francois Leterrier. Charles Leclainche. Produced by Jean Thuiller and Alain Poire. Directed by Robert Bresson. The Black ficorpian" Good horror item is backed by typical Warner promotion campaign. Will do well where exploited. Warner Bros., which hit the jackpot recently via "Curse of Frankenstein", has a new addition to the nightmare league, an horrendous bit of other-worldly filmflam called "The Black Scorpion ". Backed bv one of Warners' hard-hitting showmanly promotion campaigns, it will probably enjoy surprising success in the ballvhoo houses. While this Frank Mel ford production never reaches the bizarre and burlesque horrorama of a Baron Frankenstein undertaking, it has enough of the currently popular creep and crawl atmosphere to set off plenty of goose pimples. For scripters David Duncan and Robert Blees have come up with another of those cliff-hanging tales concerning the inevitable explorers of Science, who stumble across some awesome, unearthlv creatures. In this one they are mammoth scorpions emerging from a long dormant volcano finally letting off steam after thousands of centuries. Tossed thus into the outside world, the flies are a mit confused but manage to scare hell out of the neighboring countryside, dismantle helicopters in the wild blue yonder, paw o\er scantily-clad lovelies and chase everyone off Miss Mara Corday's ranch. This brings geologist Richard Denning to the immediate aid of the distressed damsel and sets about discovering the reason for her terrified workers' defection. What they find out, how they fight the meance and how thev finallv end the nightmare, has been handled by director Edward Ludwig and his special effects men with a sharp and sinister eye towards the shock spectacular. Warner Bros. 87 Minutes. Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas. Produced by Frank Melford. Directed by Edward Ludwig. 'Slim Carter" Sci4iKC44 ^OtCHf O O plus Good fare for the family trade. OK dualler. Color. In "Slim Carter" Universal-International is offering one of its pet products, the family entertainment. Everything of sweetness and light, from the cult of homespun humor to the sporting escapades of a freckle-faced youngster playing cupid, are here and in abundance. This is good dual bill fare in the general market, while the rural houses should find it a strong attraction. The pint-sized star is Tim Hovey whose little-man bits of wisdom caused such firewords in the popular "Major Benson". He is seen as an orphan brought to Hollywood for a month's lodgings with his idol, western he-man Jock Mahoney, who sort of approximates a combination of God and Wyatt Earp in the boy's esteem. Of course, Mahoney is hardly worth the adulation, since off-camera he spends his time chasing dames in night clubs and wouldn't know a real Indian from the cigar store variety. The trek westward for Tim had been cooked up by publicity agent Julie Adams, who resurrected Mahoney from obscurity and fashioned him into the all-honorable saddleswather, a symbol to the younger generation of everything worth striving for. Just how this symbol is kept shining for Tim makes for most of the comic situations. Eventually, the boy comes to mean more than a publicity device for the actor and Mahoney becomes all that Tim believes him to be. This provides the wholesomely tearful parts, while Tim abets the heart tugs between his idol and Miss Adams. Universal. 82 minutes. Jock Mahoney. Julie Adams, Tim Hovey. Produced by Howie Horwiti. Directed by Richard Bartlett. Film BULLETIN October 14, I957 Page 13