Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1953 - May 1955)

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Ride Clear Of Diablo Knock On Wood Danny Kaye scampers through this Technicolor potpourri with a happy abandon that's downright contagious. As a night-club ventriloquist, Danny finds that every time he gets engaged, his dummies seem to come to life and declare all of the hidden thoughts lurking in Kaye's subconscious. After three such episodes, in which he always winds up breaking a dummy, he agrees to go to Switzerland to see a psychiatrist. And, ooh la la! What a doctor. It's Mai Zetterling who conducts the couch sessions. In between doctor's appointments, Kaye is plagued by a series of top foreign agents anxious to get their hands on his newly-repaired dummies in whose heads valuable secret documents have been hidden. Of course, this added complication provides a springboard for several Kaye impersonations, innumerable disguises and even a couple of ballads. Picture, whose main drawback is its length, provides a free rein to the irrepressible Danny, so is chuck full of clowning and cavorting. Paramount. Hell And High Water All stops have been pulled out in this underwater adventure yarn in which an atom bomb is exploded, submarines crash into one another and a breathtaking sea-air fight is staged. Geared to show off the panoramic potentialities of the CinemaScope lens, the film presents Richard Widmark as a submarine skipper assigned to rendezvous with scientists Victor Francen and Bella Darvi. The latter have joined other international citizens in trying to stop evil forces from using a U.S. airplane to explode an atom bomb on Korea and then blaming this country for the feat. The duo board the submarine and order the captain to follow a freighter believed headed for the plane's secret airbase. It isn't until he realizes that his own country is being threatened that Widmark stops making like a spectator and joins the fight. Film, which speeds along at a lightning pace under Samuel Fuller's rugged direction, explodes one taut episode after another. It's shocking, suspenseful and spectacular. 20th Century-Fox. 12 Elephant Walk Elizabeth Taylor soon learns her new husband, Peter Finch, is completely dominated by the memory of his late father, who, to show his defiance against nature, built his India castle in the pathway the elephants travel. For centuries the pachyderms have used the route on their way to the river. The threat of these animals is ever at hand. Only Dana Andrews, overseer of the plantation, can understand Elizabeth's anxiety about her surroundings and her husband's playboy attitude towards his responsibilities. When an epidemic of cholera kills off owners, natives and animals, the elephants, tired, sick and thirsty, stampede the house, tearing it to the ground. Elizabeth, ready to leave her husband and accompany Andrews to America, suddenly realizes in the turmoil that her husband has emerged a leader. She has renewed respect for him, and he realizes his marriage means more than following the feudal memories of his father. Good acting, paired with the colorful background of India, make this attractive screen fare. Paramount. When Audie Murphy learns that a bunch of cattle rustlers have murdered his father and brother, he packs up his Stetson and six-shooter, sets out to hunt down the varmints. His main suspect is a laugh-happy killer, portrayed by Dan Duryea. But jovial Dan, the murderin' man, disclaims the killing and points an accusing finger at the town's crooked sheriff. Murphy refuses to acknowledge Duryea's clues, for he's interested in the law officer's good-looking daughter, Susan Cabot. Eventually, however, he's forced to face facts and cleans out the town with a spray of bullets. Technicolor film is a rather average sagebrush saga, but the performances are so livery that you find yourself overlooking several discrepancies. Universal -International. White Fire Scott Brady has no idea what adventures await him when he takes a fourday leave from his American merchant ship. Brady heads for London to see his brother. There he learns the latter has been convicted of murder and will be executed in three days. In between falling in love with Mary Castle (who looks like Rita Hayworth), and getting mixed up in a gang of jewel smugglers, he finally sees his brother has been trapped by circumstances. The lawyer who defended his brother turns out to be the head of the smugglers. Brady brings them to justice and frees his innocent young brother at the eleventh hour. Lippert Release. Creature From The Black Lagoon Anothbr science-fiction monster makes '"^its debut upon the screen with the appearance of a man-fish creature amid the wilds of the Amazon. When an imprint of the monster is uncovered by Antonio Moreno, a band of scientists, headed by Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell and Richard Denning, Irrepressible Danny Kaye's thoughts give his lovely psychiatrist, Mai Zetterling, cause for concern in Paramount's hilarious Technicolor film, "Knock On Wood."