Monday, Mar. 08, 1954

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The Boy from Oklahoma (Warner) gives Will Rogers Jr. yet another chance to try his father's Stetson on for size. Junior still has a fair amount of room to grow in, but when he tilts the broad brim back on his forehead, wrinkles his brow and sucks thoughtfully at a stalk of timothy, he looks enough like the old man to make a good many people over 35 feel warm inside. In this ordinary Warner-Color western, Will plays the gunless wonder, a Shane who cannot even shoot straight. He is such a mean man with a lasso, however, that all the villains are roped in at the end. He even lassoes the lass (Nancy Olson), but then is not allowed to do anything that father would not have done. Instead of coming in for the clinch, Junior rides away to law school.

She Couldn't Say No (RKO Radio) is a hymn with a sexy title. It is sung in praise of small-town life, but there are rather too many verses and the performers do not seem to know the tune. Corby (Jean Simmons), a girl with plenty of money and no place to spend it, decides to spread it around in the Arkansas town of Progress. The people of Progress, she has found out, saved her life when she was a child by putting up the money to send her to a medical specialist. She now returns so much bread on the waters that people from half the country over come arunning to get in on the feast. Progress soon begins to wish that prosperity had stayed around the corner. At this point the village doctor (Robert Mitchum) saves the day by confining the girl to the handiest institution: marriage.

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