Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1956)

movie previews RAW EDGE mayhem and madness out west ■ To begin with there's Dan Kirby — he was lynched. Kirby, as his brother Rory Calhoun discovers, was the only honorable man in the Oregon Territory. His Indian widow Paca (Mara Corday) has been handed over to Robert Wilkie, by order of Herbert Rudley who runs the frontier town. There are lots of people who want to get rid of Rudley — his wife (Yvonne De Carlo), all the Indians, Rory, and a father (Emile Meyer) and son (Neville Brand) who desire to take over the territory. Let me tell you, getting hold of Mr. Rudley turns into a real competition, and through it all Neville Brand is trying to get hold of Yvonne De Carlo. She screams every time he comes within ten feet of her — and you'd scream, too, considering his character. When the gunsmoke lifts there's hardly a paleface left in Oregon. — Technicolor, U.I. THESE WILDER YEARS tears for James Cagney ■ Now that he's a big steel man James Cagney starts wondering about the son he sired out of wedlock and never saw. That son (Don Dubbins) is nearly twentyone and doing quite nicely with his foster father. Barbara Stanwyck, head of the foundling home that arranged for Don's placement, has no intention of helping Cagney find him. Even the efforts of his lawyer (Walter Pidgeon) can't subdue that lady's fighting spirit. But father and son do have a meeting anyway. Meanwhile, there's teen-ager Betty Lou Keim who is in the unfortunate position of being an unwed mother— that is, she's about to become one when Cagney is first introduced to her. Through Betty he learns that one can atone for the past, in part, by being responsible for someone else's future. You'll cry a little.— MGM PARDNERS Martin & Lewis shoot it up ■ Jerry Lewis always wanted to be a rancher — his father was a rancher and got killed — and Dean Martin's father got killed with him — they were pardners. But Jerry is a Mama's boy, and Mama (Agnes Moorehead) has a million dollars which she can double by marrying Jerry off to a large heiress. Jerry's cousin (Lori Nelson) runs the ranch his dad used to own and Dean Martin helps her. When they come east for money — the mortgage is due and the Masked Raiders are always burning down the barns — they come away with, nothing but Jerry and Cuddles (a champion bull). So Jerry becomes a rancher and a sheriff, under the name of Killer Jones, but he always remains himself— completely friendly, innocent and incompetent. Of adventures with the Masked Raiders I will only say that Jerry winds up roped to a chair with dynamite (lit) in his pockets. — Vistavision. Para. 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