European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse By Robert Musel up staff stiff legged the Cowboy stalked Down he main Street of rigor mor tis n.m., arms arched and winners hooked for the draw. He did not ice a accomplice of the Al Luln slide from the livery liable to bring him Down fro behind with a Rifle. But an old pros Pector lurching out of the Saloon shouted Princz Garde Monsieur the posse cantering through its own dust in its desert Pursuit of a fugitive badman reined up in talk to in India silent in the Shadow of a Cactus. Well versed in the ways of the red Man they waited for him to open the conversation. Finally the Indian raised his Palm and said we Geht i shot twice by desperadoes in the payoff the cattlemen Buck Roe staggered towards the Saloon to die in the arms of is lady love. Klondike Kitty. He opened the swinging doors to find he kissing the owner of a Gold mine. And ii he Sank to the floor he murmured la Donna e that May not be exactly what the Fel Low said when the three scenes Para phrased above were filmed for television in Hollywood but that s the Lan Guage audiences heard when the film were shown in France. Germany and Italy with the dialogue dubbed. Anywhere you travel today. In an country where television opens its Little window on the world you Are Apt Triep More american to programs than local ones. In the nations of the euro vision network which links Europe. They know All about Perry Mason Ilove Lucy Petticoat the Beverly Hlll Billle " and other top rate shows of the american networks. Moppet in Britain and elsewhere went through a craze of carrying six shooters and mimicking Wynell earn or Marshall Dillon to the Chagrin of Brit ish elders. To Hollywood started it All half a Cen-11 Tury ago bulldozing the american Way of life to the film screens of the world opening up new frontiers for the cultural influence of the . Even before the nation Camp out of its political Isola tier for world War 1. The spearhead of a penetration that left the old world envy oui and Flat footed Wai the unique Phalanx of inter National made in America stars from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks or to Clark Gable. Greta Garbo and dozens of Othen. They were in effect a of immense Power except that in a Way most other countries consider quaint american have always insisted or conducting self criticism right Outin the open. So. The world Learned As much about the bad As it did about the Good things of american living. Hollywood no longer has it All its own Way. The film industries of most developed countries can give it stiff com petition in All areas except the costly pics like the fall of the roman Empire and France. Eng land Italy India and Japan have minor Lam film industries of their own an the list is crowing. But it will take a Long while before they achieve the same Independence in television. Even Britain which had the world s first television service in 19.111 cannot do completely without american products. It builds its three National networks around a solid Buck Bone of american programs. There is u Legal limit to the time it n allot to imported programs but it hunches the two hours Dally it is permitted into the average five hours of prime Lime a night. This gives the .a heavy representation when it counts at the maximum viewing German Chancellor Bismarck once said that the most important political fact in the world was tha Britain and the . Spoke the same Lan Guage. The British have often double that what they were getting from Holly Wood was really the language of shake Speare but television blankets a far larger audience so completely there is no longer any doubt what he two nations speak a Good example is the Beverly Hill Billies the lop ruled american comedy show. The British bought it gingerly and Only because it had such an immense viewing audience in the . They did not think their people would understand the hillbilly dialect except some of the sophisticated londoners. Soit a. Transmitted for the Metropolis Only and very late at night at hat. It developed rapidly to everybody Surprise that except for a few expressions the British still can t figure out Possum pie and chit Lins i he comedy was completely comprehensible All Over the Island where it is now one of the most popular programs. At this stage in history the Ameri can idea of television is still dominant a mixture of All the things people like to Cater for All tastes but the British Are showing signs of trying to break the pattern. With a politically mature peo ple homogeneous and not Given to form ing pressure groups the networks there have greater Latt Lluc in criticizing majorities or Man Orifici and in discussing social subjects with a frankness impractical in the . At the moment. They also have the astonishing idea that the news is More important than the newscaster so a juror such As Loo place Over the replacement by lbs of Waller Cronk Lle for convention Anchorman by Robert Trout und Roger Mudd would be impossible. The British Hup iwo to have sume of the fines news casters in the Western world. But when one of them was dismissed recently from his weekly half hour program i Drew Only a Lew lines in the newspapers. Director a tort Sherman Elvei Jeffrey Hunter a porn Ltd. Horn and i by Wallace Beene 545 Madrid Bureau fog 12 inside the Saloon the famous mexican Bandit Joaquin Murrl Cla was gelling ready to gun Down a rancher with a hungarian accent. The Atmos phere was tense but suddenly from out in the Street came the sound of a bras band playing the stars und stripes Mur Letu waited u few moments forthe Street Parade to puns gunned Dawn his Man and a tilt goo i hit Velren through the swinging doors. Such is life in Iol Rien City the Harlof the old went West Madrid. That is. Spanish westerns lire in ii Ming so numerous that two frequently Are being filmed at the sume Lime on the Samoset. It gels pretty frantic at times the extras forget which film they re work ing on the actors run around a Corberand find themselves in the Middle of a scene from the other picture and cattle get stampeded from one film into the other a script girl explained. It about like Hollywood in the the reasons for making the Western sin Spain Are several but most of them Boll Down to something the real Cowboy saw very in Lyle of Money. The usual practice is to import one or two Ameri can stars and fill in the cast with Span ish a Lori end extras the really Low budget boys go this even one belter explained Hank Werba variety Magazine correspondent i Madrid. They will do the entire picture with Spanish actors and then give the american names such Ai Rocky Rivers when the picture in exported Murrl Cla belter known As Jeffrey Hunter finds it All great fun. I enjoy working Here despite All the confusion Spain is a wonderful country and the scenery can t be beat for movie the picture Marks Hunter s firs movie in Spain since he played the role of Christ in King of hums an promptly got panned by the critics time Magazine for example headed us review i was a Tern age Hunter is philosophic about the picture und the reviews. "1 still set about 1,500 letters a month from All Over the world pmp",?".? we. Conj Al the doubt if the critics arc doing is Well appearing with Hunter is Arthur Ken Nedy of Lawrence of Arabia Fame who plays the part of the sheriff. It Ishi. First picture in Spain and he finds it All pleasantly Rise of Spanish westerns it due in part to producer Eduardo who built the Golden City to tar Long forgotten film and had the fared to keep it in repair for Otter my maker. More than a dozen wet have been made to Dale and More at scheduled. Certainly the makeup Man do creditable Job. The indians Gambler dunce Hull girls and gun Illigen let Jim us authentic is any Cut m rounded up us Hollywood and vote an for the confusion director own Sherman who s doing the Murrieta p lure says what confusion so Ennis making his third film at the let at has Long since ceased to worry abet Little things like Street Parade cob by unexpectedly. The one sound of complaint
