'The Hasty Heart'
Here This Week
Once in a decade there comes a
motion picture which leaps right
out from among even the better
ones as the word is passed among
moviegoers everywhere that here
a film not to be missed. Such
a picture is "The Hasty Heart."
A urner Hro.'\ Him sh.it .v. lsng
land under the direction of Vin
cent Sherman, and starring Ron
aid Reagon, Patrica Neal and
Richard Todd, the English star.
It comes to the Marco Theatre on
Thursday and Friday.
The word wasn’t long in get
ting around. As soon as the film
was completed and screened for
the first select audiences in
Hollywood, critics and preview
patrons alike rushed to sing its
praises.
Louella Parsons, on her na
tionwide radio and newspaper
hookup, sgid, "In 'Hasty Heart’
a new star is born. Richard Todd
gives an extraordinarily fine per
formance in a picture that is so
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Richard Todd and Patricia Neal provide romantic interest in Warn
er Bros.' "Hasty Heart,” coming Thursday and Friday to the Marco.
good that is is an improvement
on the stage play "
The noted columnist and radio
celebrity, Dorothy Kilgallen, had
to sky, " ‘Hasty Heart’ is won
derful! Everything that makes
your heart feel good!"
A highly moving drama packed
with both laughs and tears "Has
ty Heart” is the story of six sol
diers in a hospital, men from
many countries, who must be
| keep a secret from one of their
inumber, a scot who has fallen in
! love with their nurse, played by
the lovely Patricia Neal, who
starred recently opposite Gary
J Cooper in “The Fountainhead."
As the lighthearted Yank who
finds himself stranded in an Eng
i hsh hospital, Ronald Reagon turns
m what is said to be his greatest
performance since his peak role
in “Kings How " Hut in addition
it will be Richard Todd, a new
comer to American audiences
from the English screen, who
in playing the difficult role of the
ill-starred Scotsman, seems head
ed for Academy Award honors
Others in the strong support
ing east include Anthony Nieholls,
Howard Marion Crawford, Ralph
Mieheal John Sherman and Or
lando Martins
Both cast and story combine to
make "Hasty Heart” one of the
jnost popular film offerings in the
"must-see” class this year, if ad
Vance word from press and pub
lie are heeded
Bill Elliott Comes
Here Thursday
One of the most forceful west
j ern characters who ever shot his
j way across the cinematic plains
I plays Thursday and Friday at
I the Watts Theatre in the person
I of William Elliot as “Ringo” Bak
| or. The picture is Republic’s "The
Savage Horde,” and it offers the
kind of vigorous, dynamic enter
tainment that is typically Amcri
can in flavor.
Elliot plays Ringo with gusto,
and armed or unarmed, puts up
the roughest, toughest lights as
a man who makes his own laws,
Ringo rides into the lawless Utah
territory to visit Ins sweetheart
and finds himself with a battle on
j his hands, Wanted for the murder
of an army officer. Ringo is 'Tie
mg hunted by his younger brother,
; Mike (Jim Davis), a lieutenant
under the command of Colonel
Brice (Douglass Drumbnlle)
Mike knows that Ringo killed in
self defense, hut he is under or
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When Ringo accidentally
wounds Mike, he is overcome
with remorse and smashes his
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into the middle of the land grab
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Ringo, though gunless, fights
on the side of the small ranchers,
who arc striving desperately to
hold on to their property. Led by
Noah Beny, they combine tonvs
and justice finally triumphs.
On the distaff side, lovely A
drian Booth is effective as Ringo’s
sweetheart, and Barbara Fuller,
who won acclaim for her out
standing performance in "The
Red Menace," scores once more
in her first western picture The
supporting east is headed by Bob
Steele, Roy Bareroft, Will Wright,
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