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STRANGE TALE OF DUMMY — Cliff Robertson stars as a ventriloquist and Edy Williams appears as
a showgirl in “The Dummy” on “The Twilight Zone,” Friday at 9:30 on KTVF, Channel 11.
NATIONAL LAUGH HOLIDAY STARTS TODAY
Hollywood comedy king, Leo
McCarey, declares a national
laugh holiday starting today at
the Lacey Street Theater when
his CinemaScope adaptation of
Max Shulman’s riotous novel,
“Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys!”
will be un-reeled for the first
time.
For more than a year a steady
occupant of the nation’s best-seller
lists, this rib-tickl?ng story has
been written for the screen by
Claude Binyon and Producer-Direc
tor McCarey, with leading roles
played by stars Paul Newman,
Academy Award winner Joanne
Woodward, Joan Collins and Jack
Carson.
Set in an average-sized American
town, the Twentieth Century-Fox
production traces the hilarious ad
ventures of a public relations man
(Newman', whose busy-body wife
(Miss Woodward) leads a resentful
town’s crusade against the Army,
which plans to use the community
as its site for a top secret project.
Features Triangle
In the course of the story, the
well-meaning husband almost loses
his wife, because of another wom
an's (Miss Collins) flirtatious inten
CAUSE OF TRIANGLE — Joan
Collins is the cause of the roman
tic triangle in “Rally ’Round The
Flag, Boys!”, which opens today
at the Lacey Street Theater.
tions toward him, and he alienates
the entire US. Army, particularly
the blundering captain (Carson) in
charge of the project.
How this innocent by-stander re
solves his dilemma, at one point to
the extreme of re-activating his
status in the Naval Reserve, has
kept millions of readers in stitches
and with McCarey’s experienced
hand, should be echoed in the na
tion’s movie theaters with the re
lease of this film.
No Comedy Experience
McCarey purposely chose a cast
featuring several performers with
no previous comedy experience.
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward
and Joan Collins thus make their
comedy debut in “Rally ’Round the
Flag, Boys!’’ and McCarey is evi
dently pleased with the result. He
plans another fun-fest soon, teaming
these same personalities.
To add proper balance to his sup
porting cast, the film has such pro
fessional laugh-makers as co-star
Jack Carson, and a supporting cast
headed by Dwayne Hickman, Tues
day Weld, Gale Gordon, Tom Gilson
and O. Z. Whitehead.
Stewart And Wayne Team
As Western Drama Stars
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A motion picture that wil
memorable, timeless Westerns a
and “Shane” will be seen on 1
Theater beginning today when ,
“The Man Who Shot Liberty
Starred in the Paramount produc
tion are two of America’s most
popular performers—James Stewart
and John Wayne. In addition to
this powerhouse of a team, the film
boasts an outstanding co-starring
cast: Vera Miles, who recently
scored in Hitchcock's “Psycho"; Lee
Marvin, the clean-cut police officer
of TV’s “M-Squad”; Edmond
O.’Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray
and John Carradine.
The film marks the first joint ap
pearance on the screen of Stewart
and Wayne, who pool their consider
able talent to bring to life the
dramatic story of two men, each
strong in a different way, who, to
gether. succeed in winning state
hood for a lawless territory.
Lawyer and Rancher
Stewart portrays a courageous
city-bred lawyer from the Eaf.t
who abhors violence and yet is
forced to resort to it, prodded be
yond endurance by the most vicious
killer in the territory. Wayne plays
a respected rancher, the only per
son in town the killer fears.
Although both Stewart and Wayne
love the same girl, Wayne in one
of the most sympathetic character
izations of his long career, befriends
the “tenderfoot” lawyer and plays a
vital part in the latter’s accom
plishments.
Miss Miles, of course, appears as
the girl in their lives. In the role
of a frontier waitress, the star
whom Alfred Hitchcock calls “one
of the top dramatic actresses in the
business,” has the difficult job of
choosing between the two strong,
attractive men who love her.
The ruthless, sadistic Liberty
Valance is created by Lee Marvin, a
FEARLESS LAWYER — James
Stewart portrays a city-bred
lawyer in the dramatic western,
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Val
ance”, which opens today at the
New Empress Theater.
Connie Stevens
Is Neivhart Guest
Bob Newhart and special guest
Connie Stevens explore a popular
myth, and Bob encounters a couple
of World War II holdouts on “The
Bob Newhart Show,” Thursday at
7 on KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Newhart and Miss Stevens risk a
case of indignation by checking on
the belief that truck drivers know
the best places to eat.
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he screen of the New Empress
fohn Ford’s newest masterpiece,
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RESPECTED CATTLEMAN —
John Wayne plays a respected
rancher, the only man feared by
killer Liberty Valance in “The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”,
opening today at the New Emp
ress.
role that is a far cry from his tele
vision portrayal of the law-enforc
ing officer of “M-Squad.”
Edmond O'Brien, who recently has
been branching out into the pro
duction and direction of movies,
returns to acting for the plum part
of the hard-drinking fearless editor
of the territory’s only newspaper.
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Val
ance” represents another milestone
of motion picture achievement for
director John Ford, the only film
director to have won four Academy
Awards. Ford's name connected
with a production is a guarantee of
the picture's greatness—in the case
of this, his newest film, a double
edged guarantee in the persons of
James Stewart and John Wayne.
Sculptor Refuses
To Quit Project
Of Fallen Dictator
George C. Scott, an “Oscar" nomi
nee for his role in “The Hustler,1*
and Paul Richards are the guest
stars in a story of a sculptor who
refuses to give up a project under
the threat of personal harm on
“Naked City,” Friday at 9 on KFAR
TV, Channel 2.
In “Strike a Statue," Kermit Gar
rison, who had been commissioned
to immortalize in bronge a foreign
revolutionary leader, busily works
at the project. But the one-time fol
lowers of the rebel who overthrew
his government and became a hated
dictator, desperately try—at first
with an offer of money and then .
noisy pickets and threats—to force
the sculptor to stop work on tha
statue.
Garrison calls for police protec
tion but refuses to identify tha
leader of those who threaten him.
PIDGEON TO CANADA
Walter Pidgeon returns to Cana
da, his birthplace, to film his part
as an English-Canadian sportsman
in “Big Red,” his first film for Walt
Disney.