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Cial Climber. Hunter, As the Professor Responsible for Wagner's Eventual Downfall, Was Believably Bland but Wasted. How Much cial climber. Hunter, as the professor what proves to be a sordid suburbia, responsible for Wagner's eventual are Mitchell/Woodward, Hingle/Rush, downfall, was believably bland but and Randall/North. Hunter's wife is wasted. How much better this film attacked by Mitchell; Hunter himself might have been had Hunter and Wag- is cruelly beaten when he tries to ner exchanged roles! avenge her; villain Mitchell goes to 20. GUN FOR A COWARD. (Universal- his death under an auto; his wife Jo- International, 1957.) Directed by Ab- anne Woodward goes off in a taxi; and ner Biberman. Cast: Fred MacMurray, the remaining couples demonstrate Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill their new maturity by going to church. Wills, Dean Stockwell, Josephine Hut- A distasteful mess. chinson, Betty Lynn. In this Western, Hunter appeared When Hunter reported to Universal- as the overprotected second of three International for Appointment with a sons. "Coward" Hunter eventually Shadow (released in 1958), he worked proved to be anything but in a rousing but one day, as an alcoholic ex- climax. Not a great film, but a good reporter on the trail of a supposedly one. slain gangster. Having become ill 21. THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE with hepatitis, he was replaced by JAMES. (20th Century-Fox, 1957.) Di- George Nader. Subsequently, Hunter rected by Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert told reporters that only the faithful Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Hale, Alan nursing by his wife, Dusty Bartlett, Baxter, John Carradine. whom he had married in July, 1957, This was not even good. Robert pulled him through. (She later pre- Wagner was miscast in the title role, sented him with two sons. Still later, and Hunter couldn't begin to breathe in September, 1966, she presented him life into his role of brother Frank with divorce papers, alleging that he James. All concerned, including the drank to excess and was careless versatile director, got deservedly bad with money.) notices. 22. THE WAY TO THE GOLD. (20th Century-Fox, 1957.) Directed by Rob- 24. COUNT FIVE AND DIE. (20th ert D. Webb. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Century-Fox, 1958.) Directed by Vic- Sheree North, Barry Sullivan, Walter tor Vicas. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Brennan, Neville Brand, Jacques Au- Patrick, Annemarie Duringer, David buchon, Ruth Donnelly, Tom Pittman. Kossoff, Rolf Lefebvre. Far better was this low-budget ef- Hunter's most underrated film. A fort in which Hunter was very fine as British production, it cast him as an an ex-convict on the trail of stolen American engaged in counterespionage gold. A kindly lawman (Sullivan) ef- work with English and Dutch patriots fects his regeneration, and black-and- in wartime London. The snake in this white CinemaScope photography great- hotbed of spies and counterspies is ly enhanced a film that never won the Dutch girl Annemarie Duringer, whom attention it deserved. Hunter loves. He refuses to believe 23. NO DOWN PAYMENT. (20th Cen- the girl's treachery until the final mo- tury-Fox, 1957.) Directed by Martin ments, when each shoots the other. Ritt. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Sheree She expires in a deserted basement; North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, he, in a deserted alley. That the Hunt- Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Rush, Pa- er character was very likable, but tricia Owens, Pat Hingle. slightly stupid, enhanced the tension In this one Hunter is married to Pa- and added an air of realistic tragedy to tricia Owens. The neighbor couples, in the last scenes. It was a difficult role, 10 FILMOGRAPH From John Ford's film Sergeant Rutledge (1960). It is the Southwest, the Civil War is now over, and a criminally-charged black soldier (the title role) has been befriended by Tom Cantrell (an army officer) and Mary Beecher. (The New York Times, May 26, 1960, thought Jeffrey Hunter, as Cantrell, and Con- stance Towers, as Mary, to be "quite persuasive" in their roles.) and Hunter never faltered in making it 26. IN LOVE AND WAR. (20th Cen- credible. tury-Fox, 1958.) Directed by Philip Dunne. Cast: Robert Wagner, Dana 25. THE LAST HURRAH. (Columbia, Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, 1958.) Directed by John Ford. Cast: Bradford Dillman, Sheree North, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne France Nuyen, Mort Sahl. Foster, Pat O'Brien, Donald Crisp, It's a miracle that Hunter (and his Basil Rathbone, James Gleason, Ed- hapless co-stars) survived this banal ward Brophy, John Carradine, Ricardo film. Hunter was one of several rugged Cortez, Wallace Ford, Frank McHugh, Marines. A 101-minute mishmash that Carleton Young, Frank Albertson, seemed to last twice as long. Anna Lee. John Ford paged him again, this 27. SERGEANT RUTLEDGE. (Warner time for the role of the nephew of a Bros., 1960.) Directed by John Ford. Boston politician (Tracy) against Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Tow- whom forces conspire for the purpose ers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, of destroying his career. Hunter's act- Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey. ing during Tracy's death scene was John Ford rescued Hunter by offer- poignant, and critics and public alike ing him the role of an army lawyer cheered the film whose cast of pros who defends a black soldier falsely helped make it one of the best films accused of rape and murder. Hunter of the year. was believable and moving in this FILMOGRAPH 11 29. KEY WITNESS. (MGM, 1960.) Directed by Phil Karlson. Cast: Jef- frey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Dennis Hop- per, Joby Baker, Susan Harrison, Johnny Nash, Corey Alien. A suspense film in which Hunter witnesses a wanton murder, and, be- cause he refuses to keep silent, finds himself and his family threatened. An above-average programmer. Late in the year 1960, producer Sam Bronston created a controversy when he announced that Jeffrey Hunter had been chosen for the role of Christ in King of Kings, to be made in Spain. (H. B. Warner played Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's silent version released in 1927.) Bronston and director Nich- olas Ray justified their casting of Hunter by citing his emotional scope "When the focus is fixed very simply as an actor. (Also a factor was the on the figure of Jeffrey Hunter as near-hypnotic effect of his blue eyes, Jesus Christ and on the acting of a which were to become the object of few familiar episodes in the Savior's life, there is a certain photographic many jests by nit-picking critics.) reverence and purely pictorial elo- Hunter was awed at the prospect quence in Samuel Bronston's elaborate of playing Christ, as is attested by screen biography of the Messiah, the following, which was attributed to 'King of Kings.' "—Bosley Crowther him: in The New York Times, Oct. 12, 1961. "It's absolutely impossible for me to regard this remarkable opportunity worthwhile film. as a part for which I, an actor, can 28. HELL TO ETERNITY. (Allied prepare! I can only approach it with Artists, 1960.) Directed by Phil Karl- two guideposts—absolute humility son. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, David and a willingness to accept the emo- Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia tional and spiritual leadership of my Owens, Sessue Hayakawa, Richard director and the religious advisers for Eyer, Miiko Taka, Bill Williams. this film upon whose wisdom we all Hunter had one of his best roles as are relying. a man who as an orphan boy was adop- "Mr. Bronston agreed that it would ted by a kindly family of (pre-Pearl be impossible for me to discuss with Harbor) Japanese-Americans and who later becomes emotionally torn when, authority my feelings about playing as a marine, he is compelled to fight Christ, so during the five months I'll the Japanese overseas. This bio- be dedicated to this role I'll keep my graphical film had none of the phony activities off-the-set anonymous." embellishments which so often wreck such films; and Hunter, as the Marine "But I wasn't prepared for the re- hero who captures 800 enemy soldiers actions I got from thousands of Span- and civilians, was powerfully per- ish extras...when I appeared for the suasive. Sermon on the Mount; many dropped to 12 FILMOGRAPH their knees. Of course they knew I Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, was an actor playing a part...still I Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca was a living representation of a Fig- Lindfors, Rita Gam, Carmen Sevilla, ure they had regarded from childhood Brigid Baslen, Harry Guardino, Rip with awe. I didn't know what to do, Torn, Frank Thring, Guy Rolfe. Mau- but instinctively pretended not to rice Marsac, Gregoire Asian and notice rather than intrude upon this Robert Ryan. Beneath notice except as an ex- gesture of devotion. ample of the depths to which a widely- "It was then that I began to real- read critic could sink was Time maga- ize what I'd undertaken and I felt it zine's review, part of which read: even more deeply as the film went "The imitation of Christ is little bet- along. I knew the Bible, of course, ter than blasphemy. Granted that the but no better than most. The story of role is impossible to cast or play; Jesus, as it's come to us, is sacred granted that the attempt may neverthe- legend. But I'd never thought much less be worth making...but what ever about Him as a flesh-and-blood per- possessed them to cast Jeffrey Hunter, son, as a Man who lived on this earth a fan mag cover boy with a flabby face, a cute lopsided smile, baby-blue among people and times not too differ- eyes and barely enough histrionic ent from ours, today." ability to play a Hollywood Marine? During production, Hunter deliber- The critic also said the film might ately kept himself aloof from others in better be called "I Was a Teenage the cast and crew and in isolation Jesus." when he wasn't working.
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