Monday, Feb. 09, 1953

Also Showing

Niagara (20th Century-Fox) is a thin trickle of melodrama with a Niagara Falls setting. The picture casts Marilyn Mon roe as a curvaceous tramp who plots to murder her husband (Joseph Gotten).

When the plan backfires, Marilyn and her lover (Richard Allan) wind up dead at the hands of the husband, who takes his punishment by going over the falls in a drifting boat.

A cut & dried thriller, Niagara allows Marilyn Monroe to parade about in revealing negligees and to take a shower in silhouette. But this is just about the full range of her performance. The picture's outstanding feature: the Technicolored shots of the thundering falls.

The Tall Texan (Lippert) is a short-order horse opera about a group of as sorted characters lusting for gold and a woman in the wide open spaces of the old West. After approximately an hour of gunplay, almost everyone is killed off, except the girl (Marie Windsor) and a strong, silent type (Lloyd Bridges), who have come to love each other. Of some interest to western fans may be the weird New Mexican rock formations that abound in the film.

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