Evening star. [volume], September 20, 1946, Page A-12, Image 12

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'Renegades’ Makes Rough Run
Os er That Frontier Stage
By Jay Carmody
Intentionally or otherwise, Hollywood westerns these days almost
invariably look like satirical parodies of ihe huge library of cow-country
literature already filmed. The heroes are either too painfully or laugh
ably noble, the heroines go too lar in their beautiful passionate wayward
ness. and the villains seem to hate done postgraduate work under the
Nazis Even the technicolor scenery has an exaggerated allure to any
moviegoer wno ha- ever breatneci a
npstrilful of alkali dust
Another such western. “The Rene
gades." opened at the Earle yester
day. Columbia Pictures’ intention
In making it with Willard Parker.
Evelyn Keyes .and a screenful of
others probably was as admirable as
those of an algebra teacher the
week before school opens. But “The
Renegades" cannot escape the ap
pearance of another frontier fable
told in technicolor with some one's
tongue in his cheek
The Earle’s film is a biography of
the Dembrows. a violent family full
of gory tricks for heckling the good
people who wanted to make the
town of Prairie Dog a comfortable
and profitable place to live. What
the Dembrows did to Prairie Dog
should not have happed to Ulcer
Gulch Bid it never is brought off
half so excitingiv as Director George
Sherman intended, even with most
tif the cast moving most of 'he
ime at breakneck speed on horse
bark.
* * * *
The Dembrows. headed by Edgar
Buchanan as a scripture-reading
rogue of a father, account for more
kindly feeling for “The Renegades
than the hero and heroine of the
screenplay. They are an ornery lot
even finally the handsome kid
brother, but their meanness is more
authentically human than the good
ness of the plot's best people. Bad
as they are. the Dembrows leave
the Earle customer with the un
comfortable feeling that he is on
their side. This is especially tine
of Pop Dembrnw who masterminds
the family’s misdeeds, but leaves
the dirty work to his sons. Pop
Dembrow can be a funny sort and
a welcome relief to the virtuous
Citizens of Prairie Dog.
Everything went into the shaker
out of which the script writers;
(poured “The Renegades" This in
cludes saloon brawls, the love tri
angle involving the hern, villain:
and heroine; the stage robbery: an!
endless chase by the largest posses;
ever assembled the covered wagon;
cja.sh against 'ime and the stork:!
Lovers of Art
j
Get Rough in
Met’s Thriller
"CR^CK nr an RKO picture with Pr •
O Brief Claire Trevor Herber* Marshall,
produced bv Jack J 'rros* direr’eri by
Irving Reis. serpenplav by John Paxton.
Ben Bengal and Ray Spencer, based on a
atory by Prednc Brown. At the Metro
politan.
The rant.
Oer^jze Steele Pa’ O'Bnen
Terry Claire Trevor
Traybin Herber' Marshal!
Dr Lowell _ Ray Collins
Cochrane Wallace Foi<i
Reynolds . Dean Ha i
Stevenson Damian O'Flynn
Barton Erskme Sanford
Mary Mary Ware
Not even art museums are ex
empt from Hollywood's probing of
the human mind and its morbid
unbalances. Another of them shows
up as thp setting for “Crack-Up."
moderately interesting thriller
which opened yesterday at the Met
ropolitan. With Pat O'Brien. Claire
Trevor and Herbert Marshal! in the
principal roles, it has to tell of an
international band of art thrieves.
What It says of them is that art
lovers can plav as rough as any
other illegal traffickers, that, their
cultural gloss is strictly skin deep,
and that society can be a dope if it
thinks old masters are for rich
sissies.
Fortunately, there is a code which
bars disclosure of plots of screen
plays such as "Crack-Up.' It L- e
hanriy ethic to fall back on for a
reviewer who does not want to
sound like a babbler, which is what
any one would sound like trying 10
report his way through the screen
play's deceptions.
While they can be just as mur
derous as the old rum runners and
dope smugglers of the cinema, those
In “Crack-Up" are better dressed,
socially smoother, and much more
artful thinkers. Amons them,
O’Brien Is an art expert with a
highly developed gift of sleuthing
out the phony. His job as a
lecturer on the staff of the museum
arouses his suspicions of the direc
tors and trustees. That is where
the fun, largely his Own, begins. As
for his girl, Claire Trevor, she be
comes convinced that his reward
will be a bashed skull. Audiences,
watching his occasional heavy
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LOANS
On Diamonds, H'atrhis. Jrutlry,
Camaras, Guns, Etc.
Oldeit Loon Office in Metrop"liton Area
HORNING'S
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1 Milt South or Highway Brldtt
Arlington, Vo.
Take Bus from 12th Cr Po Are.
/ dine at O' Donnell's i
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—Long famous for its i
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| broiled steoLs, chops ond 3
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, the family for luncheon. ]
I dinner or supper served in \
comfortable AIR-COOLED
dining rooms. j
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SEA grill
1207-1221 E Sf NW.
Thos. A 0 Donnell
Wm*, leer leverages
RENEGADFS a Columbia Picture
. * ilb Evelyn Keve* and Wihard Pa-set
I produced bv Michael Kraike. directed bv
! George Sherman screenplay b' Melvin i
i Levy and Franc:- Edward^ Farae«»h orim- j
nai story by Harold Shuma’e At the
: Earle.
The Cast.
Hannah Biorkwav Evelyn Keves i
Dr Sam Martin Willard Parker
Ben (Taylor* Dembrow La’iy Paik‘ !
Kirk Denabrow Edgar B'mhanan
Cash Dembrow Jim Bannon i
I Frank Dembrow Forrest Tucker
iJakorski Ludwig Donath
Link Frank Sully
Nathan Brockwav Willard Robertson!
Alkali Kid Paul E Burns !
Davy lane Eddy Waller j
Caleb Smart Vernon Dent
Eph Francis Ford |
Mrs Jakorski Hermine Sterlet
sarah Dembrow Virginia B is ac
Sheriff Addison Richards
the seige of the renegades in moun
tain cabins; and even the threat
ened diphtheria epidemic which
keeps the doctor hero from courting
Hannah who is morbidlv jealous of
his profession under the best of
circumstances.
As a careerist in directing West
erns. of which this is the most am-1
bitious. Sherman never was a man
to spare the horses. In "The Rene
gades." he subjected his platers to
a saddle-soreness test that must
have struck them as ruthless. It is
a neat trick for giving a movie ac
tion but when the action leads
pellmell to nowhere, that is not so
good, and neither is "The Rene
gades." I
That the Gilcia character of the
studio's earlier movie has become
one of Columbia's complexes is in
rniated in the character played by
flame-haired Miss Keyes. Funda
mentally a good girl, she is capable
of reprehensibly errant taste in men.
Representing this quality of Han
nah's is an east job for ‘ The Rene
gade,s" feminine star. A much
harder, if not impossible, task Ls
Parker's go at making the hero con
vincing. Of the principals, the best
performance is that provided by
Larry Parks as Ben Dembrow
None of the top players, however,
measures up to Buchanan as Father
Dembrow. who is responsible for
mast of the laughs and the most
enthusiastic spots of excitement in
the new feature at the Earle
handedness, are not quite sure that
is not what he deserves.
While O'Brien is tracking down
ihe psvchotics in the museum, they
are countering by trying to have him
put away as a war neurotic and.
when that fails, as a first-degree
murderer.
Director Irving Reis has not al
wavs handled his complex material
in such a wav as to keep audience
suspense high, exasperation nil. The
latter takes over quite frequently In.
the course of "Crack-Up." but not1
often enough to rob it entirely of
merit. j. c
California State Society
To Hold Fall Breakfast
The California State Society will
hold its fall breakfast at noon on:
Sunday. September 29. at the Wash
ington Hotel. Special efforts are
being made to welcome into the
society the more than 300 Californ
ians w-ho are in the Civil Service
here. Herbert C. Parker, president
of the society, said.
Francis McIntyre, director of ex
port control of the Commerce
Department, will speak at the‘
breakfast. A graduate of Stanford
University and a former faculty
member there, he will discuss Cali
fornia s place in w-orld trade.
Mrs. Fiank Miller, 2511 Thirty
ninth street N.W.. has charge of
arrangements for the breakfast.
AMUSEMENTS
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MRS. DORSEY'S 1946-47
CONCERTS
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LAST 3 DAYS
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LIVES"
Tues. Thru Sun.. 8:45
Sunday Matinee. 2:45*
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HORSES FRIEND Fred
MaeMurray plays the leading
male role in “Smoky," the
Technicolor picture about a
horse named Smoky, now at
the Columbia.
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.
National "The Temporary Mrs.:
Smith". 8 30 p.m.
Screen.
Capitol -“Somewhn r in the
Night": 10:45 a.nr. 1:40. 4:25. 7:15
and 10:05 p.m. Stage shows: 12:50,
3:40. 6:30 and 9:20 p.m.
Columbia—"Smoky": 11:40 a in..
1:40, 3:40, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:30 p.m.
Earle—"Renegades": 11 am, 1:05,'
3:15. 5:20. 7:30 and 9:40 p.m.
Hippodrome —■ "Terror House":'
2:20. 3:55, 5:25. 6:55, 8:25 and 9.55
p.m.
Keith’s '"The Kiri Prom Brook
lyn": 11:45 a m., 2:15 4:40, 7:05 and
9:35 p.m.
Little—"It Happened at the Inn”:
11 a m., 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:45
p.m.
Metropolitan -"Crack-Up”: 11:30
a m.. 1:30. 3:35. 5:40, 7:40 and 9:45
p.m.
Palace "Claudia and David":
11:30 am. 1:35. 3:35. 5:40 7:45 and
9:50 pm.
Pix—"Bohemian Girl" 3:05, 5:35.
7:55 and 10:25 p.m.
Trans-Lux—News and shorts, con
tinuous from 10:15 a m.
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A
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A Suspenseful
Melodrama
• SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT a *:<*rh
Ontury Fox Picture wi*h .John Hodiak
and Lloyd Nolan, produced bv Anderson
Lawler, directed bv .Joseph L Mank'pwirj
scrcenplav bv Howard Dimsriale ann .Jo
seph L Mankiew:c7 from a story by Lee
Strasberg Ar the Capitol.
THE CAST
George Taylor John Hodiak
Christy Nancy Guild
Lt Donald Kendall Iloyd Nolan
Mel Phillips Richard Conte
Elizabeth Conroy Josephine Hutchinson
Anzelmo Fritz Kortner
Phyllis Margo Woode.
Sam Sheldon Leonard
Hubert . Lou Nova
Marine Captain John Russell
Conroy Housely Stevenson
little Man Charles Amt
Cab Driver A1 Sparlts
By Horry MacArthur.
Operating upon the tenable
theory that there might be found
a number of people who would
shoot other people for S2.000.000.
20ih Century-Fox has come up with
an above-average suspense film in
"Somew-here in the Night.” The pic
ture. which opened yesterday at
the Capitol, does ,not manage to
achieve complete plausibility all the
time, of course, but it is good
lively melodrama, punctuated with
a proper dash of the light touch l
And the quality of suspense attained
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SPRING ON ROFTE 97
ADMISSION, *100
by Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
la of a rather high order.
The storv begins when a young
Marine named George Taylor
emerges from a hospital an amnesia
victim after too close contact with an
exploding grenade. He knows noth
j ing of his past beyond the sparse
information in two letters One,
|unsigned, is from a girl who ap
parently has thought him quite a
heel and wished him dead and the
other is from an apparent pal
(who has deposited $.">.000 to the
hero's account in a Los Angeles
bank.
* * * *
His natural desire to locate so
'generous a crony leads the ex
, Marine through such a series of
.disasters that a lesser man would!
I have given up and gone out to find
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rubber hose treatment, while others
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long, of course, that the reason for
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■ See MacARTHUR, Page A-13.1
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JOHN HODIAK *
NANCY GUILD
“SOMEWHERE
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NICK LUCAS
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LINDSAY’S LOVELY LADIES
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DOROTHY McGUIRE
ROBERT YOUNG
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