Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1950)

V'*' (F) A Ticket to Tomahawk (20th Century-Fox) It AN DAILEY, Anne Baxter and Emma V Sweeney are the stars of this actionpacked story of the frantic efforts of the jnarrow -gauge Tomahawk and Western to acquire a franchise in Colorado, in 1876. You’ll like Miss Sweeney, a thirtypight-ton locomotive which has been running since the Nineties over the hundreds )f miles of narrow-gauge tracks that thread together the mining towns of Coloado. She wears big deer antlers across ner headlight which is an ornate kerosene one, her bell and whistle are of pright brass and her cowcatcher is very nig. All in all, she’s trim and perky. The company includes Walter Brennan rs Miss Sweeney’s loving engineer and lory Calhoun as a villainous henchman if the rival Epitaph Overland Stage Company. Dan Dailey, a traveling salesman vith an itching foot, and Anne Baxter, he ridingest, shootingest half-pint depity sheriff in the business, add their share o the hilarity. 'our Reviewer Says: Come along for the ide. 'S'S (A) The Asphalt Jungle (M-G-M) rHIS brutally frank story of crime and punishment in a Midwestern city was irected by two-time Academy Award /inner John Huston — son of the late Waler Huston. John’s pictures are usually rim (“The Treasure of Sierra Madre”) ut always dramatic and exciting. This ime he exposes the behind-the-scenes deails of the robbery of a jewelry store. Six-feet-four Sterling Hayden is the urprise of the picture. As the two-bit ;ickup hoodlum, Sterling proves he is no inger a Glamour Boy (a role he detested), ut a darned good actor. The picture is packed with stand-out erformances. New York actor Sam Jaffe, 1 one of his rare screen appearances, is ae master mind of the robbery. Louis alhern is the big-time lawyer who defends underworld characters. James Whitlore (“Battleground”) is a hunchback ash-slinger, and Jean Hagen (“Adam’s lb”) is a cheap night-club hostess, here’s a beautiful blonde, too, name of Iarilyn Monroe, who plays Calhern’s girl •iend, and makes the most of her footage. our Reviewer Says: Pistol-packing story. ^ (A) Cargo to Capetown (Columbia) CADEMY Award winner Broderick Crawford (“All the King’s Men”) is fasted in this brawny sea yarn which illows an old familiar pattern. He plays a brave blustering chief enneer who is shanghaied aboard a leaky d oil tanker by his pal, John Ireland, ho has ambitions to be a sea captain, aturally Brod’s fiancee, Ellen Drew, gets aught on the doomed tub, too, and naturally it turns out that she is a former rl friend of Ireland’s, and the spark’s ill there. The romantic complications e interrupted by some suspenseful dis;ters, including a typhoon and an oil fire, dgar Buchanan is on hand with some jiilosophic mouthings about old ships and d women. ; After this picture Ireland, a fine actor id the husband of Joanne Dru, asked for lease from his Columbia contract. >ur Reviewer Says: A not-too-exciting voy ;e. ^ (A) Bright Leaf (Warners) I ALL, taciturn Gary Cooper, not too I kindly photographed, snares himself two Coming..* c-c-c/oser IPaltDisnetf’s PRESENTATION OF Robert Louis Stevenson’s reasure Island Color by TECHNICOLOR It had to be Walt Disney! America’s master storyteller captures all the white-hot excitement in this finest of adventure yarns. Soon, his unforgettable cast will sweep you to a world of sea-tossed adventure and embattled men ... of pirates whose hearts are as black as their gunpowder ... of a one-legged rogue who led them to steal, only to have his own heart stolen by a boy’s courage. You’ll feel you’ve lived the greatest adventure of them all! JIM HAWKINS played by BOBBY DRISCOLL (Academy Award winning boy actor of 1949) LONG JOHN SILVER played by ROBERT NEWTON CAPTAIN SMOLLETT played by BASIL SYDNEY Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures • Produced by Perce Pearce • Directed by Byron Haskin Screen play by Lawrence E. Watkin P 27