An astounding
paranoid fantasy in which a gunfighter is ostracized and nearly lynched for
drawing on a man in self-defense, because the dead man’s brother is a
skillful man at manipulating the citizens of Showdown Creek and Buckhorn and Gunstock
(he’s a lawyer and holds deeds), “not a town in a thousand
miles” hasn’t heard of the gunfighter, who runs a cattle ranch with
his brother, and the note is due.
Only the banker
in Showdown Creek knows the truth of all these dealings. The railroad’s
coming through, a lucrative contract for beef can be
had. The lawyer hires a paid killer as bodyguard.
Wine Is a Traitor
The
Fugitive
The
vintner’s son has a scheme for eliminating labor troubles,
Kimble is unfortunately “a witness who cannot be called.”
Admirably tense,
superbly fragile surface direction on a deep bass of violence with a top note
of clarity, and a great score by Pete Rugolo.
The Conscience of the King
Star Trek
The Macbeth and
Hamlet’s Ghost of a traveling company of interstellar players once slew
half his people under another name, and “would have been a hero if the
supply ship hadn’t arrived”.
Anyway, Kirk
suspects this as one of the few remaining eyewitnesses. Another dies, a third
is poisoned.
Lady Macbeth is
the actor’s daughter, Lenore.
Oswald draws
upon all his skills to create his Shakespearean (Arnold Moss) in space and the
mighty maniac (Barbara Anderson) behind the prop throne. He is especially good
with control areas, and lends an air of color abstraction (red or blue) to medium
close-ups in champ contre
champ.
The Second Time Around
It Takes a Thief
The
counterfeiting plot against the U.S. has failed, “economic warfare”
now continues with a vault full of gold to buy American securities.
The entry into
this new plan is an administered test, Eric “The
Red” Redman (Adolfo Celi) is obliged to kill Alexander and Alister Mundy
to prove his worth. After all, they did in the counterfeiting.
The gold simply
vanishes at Redman’s private gambling club in Geneva,
he is, as the saying goes, “liquidated” by his own side.
Homage to The Pink Panther (is Alister Le Panthère,
or is Wally Powers?).