BLOWING WILD
(Warner Brothers) A SOLEMN, purposeful, incorruptible " " Gary Cooper, a haunting theme song by Dimitri Tiomkin (sung by Frankie Laine), and sun-baked locations might remind a few people of High Noon when Blowing Wild opens. Well, this is far from being another High Noon, but for all that it’s in places a quite diverting piece. The problem here, is whether to pay the loéal bandits .or fight them for the right to win oil in their territory, and there’s plenty of fighting and other forms of action, including an exciting drive with a truckload of nitro-glycerine-with the bandits, of course, in trigger-happy purusit. Mr. Cooper has already lost his round with the bandits when he runs into an old friend (Anthony Quinn), who is married to another old friend (Barbara Stanwyck). As always, Mr. Quinn is worth watching, whether loving or fighting, and Miss Stanwyck makes an interesting study of a certain kind of woman in love. Less interesting but very easy on the eye is Ruth Roman, the other woman, who only sits and waits.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 21
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177BLOWING WILD New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 21
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