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THE DEFENDERS — E. G. Marshall (left) and Robert Reed co-star as Lawrence and Kenneth Pres
ton, a father-and-son lawyer team in “The Defenders,” Saturdays at 8 on KTVF, Channel 11. Polly
Rowles is featured as the firm’s secretary, Helen Donaldson. This week a group of Korean War veter
ans hold a “reunion” to try one of their number for treason.
TWIN BILL FEATURES WESTERN DRAMAS
Throughout the turbulent and
colorful history of the Old West,
the lynch mob played a dram
atic and fearful role. The dread
ed danger of the irresponsible
mob taking the law into its own
hands was always present in an
era when men lived by the gun
and the individual’s safety was
often his own personal problem.
The situation made the job of the
law enforcement officer a dangerous
and complicated one, for he often
found himself battling the “law
abiding” citizen to protect an ac
cused law-breaker.
This strange turn-about has been
graphically and excitingly drama
tized in Citation’s “Colorado,” the
powerful action-drama now show
ing at the Lacey Street Theater. In
the film James Cagney faces the
mob twice—once as its intended vic
tim and again as a sheriff—both
times with results that pack rugged,
brawling action into the suspenseful
story of the VistaVision thriller.
Second Feature
The cleverest murderers this side
of San Quentin are not to be found
skulking in a shadowy underworld,
but rather traipsing around unfet
tered in the fabled land of Holly
wood. For, without a doubt, the
most diabolic dealers of death any
where are the motion picture
makers.
In fact, the movie plotters have
been so prolific in devising ways of
killing people that they have prac
tically exhausted every conceivable
means of homicide.
Simple shootings, hangings, knif
ings and poisonings have been passe
for many years now, although occa
sionally an unimaginative screen
TIME OUT — John Payne and
Rhonda Fleming take time out in
Citation’s "Spread Eagle.” The
thrill-packed drama can be seen
now at the Lacey Ttreet Theater.
killer will fall back on one of those
standbys, and even such once star
tling corpse-making instruments as
death rays and germ-laden hypo
dermic needles are commonplace.
Fiendish Minds
From all this, one might assume
that Hollywood screen writers have
reached the end of their rope (noose,
of course) as far as movie mayhem
is concerned. In truth, however,
their fiendish minds never stop
working, and they recently came
up with a new technique that is
used for the first time in Citation's
action-drama, “Spread Eagle," which
opens today at the Lacey Street
Theater.
Actually, it’s an old western cus
tom known as the “spread-eagle,"
an elaborate but highly effective
way of despatching a victim. Basic
ally simple, the method consists of
tieing a man between two wild
horses which are then turned loose
in open country.
The chances of surviving this
sort of treatment are roughly com
parable to those of a small boy
with a water pistol against a nation
with an H-bomb.
Concerned in these and other ac
tion-packed proceedings are John
Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Dennis
O'Keefe, stars of “Spread Eagle"
which was directed by Lewis R.
Foster.
Two Great Medieval Films
Offered On Dual Program
“Ivanhoe” and “Knights of the Roundtable,” two of Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer’s great spectacle dramas, are now brought to
the screen as an outstanding dual attraction starting today at
the New Empress Theater.
Both pictures were filmed on a massive scale in color with
all-star casts supported by thousands of players. “Ivanhoe.”
cased on the world-famous novel
by Sir Walter Scott, stars Robert
Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fon
taine, George Sanders and Emlyn
Williams. “Knights of the Round
table,” photographed in Cinema
scope, stars Robert Taylor, Ava
Gardner and Mel Ferrer in a tre
mendous cast.
Set against the medieval pagentry.
rich costumes and spectacular back
grounds of the England of 1200 A.D.,
when knighthood was in flower,
“Ivanhoe” unfolds an action-filled
story of chivalry and romance, bat
tle and intrigue.
It is the story of Richard the Lion
Hearted. England’s Warrior King,
who is held captive at the close of
the Third Crusade to free the Holy
Land and sets all Britain aflame
with a struggle for power between
Norman and Saxon knights.
Among thrill highlights are the
storming of the Norman stronghold
of Torquilstone Castle, the tourna
ment in which Ivanhoe meets in
turn each of five Norman knights
and unhorses each opponent, and
the savage battle between Ivanhoe
and De Bois-Guilbert with the
former using an axe as his weapon
and the latter a chain-mace.
Robert Taylor plays the title role,
with Elizabeth Taylor cast as the
beautiful Rebecca who is sentenced
to die as a witch but whose life is
saved by Ivanhoe.
Second Feature
“Knights of the Rqundtable” also
tells a story of England, this time in
its turbulent Sixth Century, when
King Arthur and his gallant knights
fought to free the country from its
feudal chieftains.
Taylor portrays the intrepid
knight. Lancelot; Ava Gardner is
seen as Guinevere, with whom he
falls illfatedly in love; Mel Ferrer
has the role of King Arthur.
The exciting film is replete with
swordplay and action from its very
opening sequence, in which Arthur
draws the sword Excalibur from its
steel anvil, through such scenes as
Lancelot's single-handed combat
against six knights, the episode in
which he topples a huge gallery
stone into a conclave and foils an
attempt to murder Arthur, the
scene in which Lancelot rescues
Guinevere from the Green Knight
in a jousting duel, the battle against
the Piets, fought with darts, rocks
TOUGH GUY — James Cagney ,
is as tough as he looks in Cita
tion’s “Colorado” in Technicolor
and Vista Vision. Co-starring John
Derek and Ernest Borgnine. the
action-drama is now at your La
cey Street Theater.
and flaming arrows, the trial in
which Guinevere is accused of un
faithfulness, and the final duel to
the death between Lancelot and
Modred on the edge of a pool of
quicksand.
“Ivanhoe" and “Knights of the
Roundtable” were produced by
Pandro S. Berman, with both pic
tures directed by Richard Thorpe.
The musical scores for these two
great spectacle films were written
by Miklos Rozsa, whose most re
cent musical contributions to the
screen were in “Ben-ttur” and
“King of Kings.”
Alcohol Problem
Is Spotlighted On
Dr. Kildare Show
Dr. Kildare gpes to work in an
experimental ward for treating
drunks under direction of a doctor
(guest star Lee Marvin) who. him
self. struggles to stay off the bottle
in the “Dr. Kildare" episode, "One
for the Road," Friday at 10 on
KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
Assigned to the project by Dr.
Gillespie (Raymond Massey) Dr.
Kildare (Richard Chamberlain)
faces complications in the person
of a hostile young drunk who re
fuses to identify himself beyond the
name John Doe (Paul Carr).
Doe describes every scientific ar
ticle ever written by Dr. Probeck
(Marvin' but refuses to explain
why he is so well informed.
Swaps Body For
Younger Model
On Twilight Zone
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Joseph Schildkraut. making his
second appearance this season in the
series, stars as an aging husband in
a futuristic society who is willing
to swap his body for that of a
young man in “The Trade-Ins” on
Rod Serling's “The Twilight Zone,”
Friday at 9:30 on KTVF, Channel
Eleven.
As John Holt, Schildkraut goes
with his wife Martha, portrayed by
Alma Platt, to the New Life Corp
oration, where they learn about the
unique process of exchanging old
bodies for those of young people,
thereby providing new opportuni
ties for long and happy lives.
Grandpa Younger
Than He Thought
Grandpa McCoy’s morale gets an
unexpected boost when Social Se
curity records show him to be a
mere youngster of 61, instead of 68
as he had thought, in “You're as
Young as You Feel” on “The Real
McCoys” Wednesday at 8 on KFAR
TV, Channel 2.