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Show Rare Film Hit at Centre Theater Starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature, and directed by three-time Academy Award-winner John Ford, "My Darling Clementine" is now playing at the Centre theater. The Twentieth Century - Fox film, set in the colorful period of the 1880s in the southwest and based on actual historical incidents, in-cidents, unfolds one of this country's most exciting chapters chap-ters of flaming hate, violence and romance. In his newest role, Henry Fonda Fon-da returns to the type part with which he won such memorable successes in "Jessie James," "The Return of Frank James" and "The Ox-Bow Incident." "My Darling Clementine" presents pre-sents him as the fabled Wyatt Earp, the gun-fighting marshal who cleaned up Dodge City, Wichita and Tombstone. It is .he latter place that Earp scored his most spectacular triumph which is, in essence, the story of "My Darling Clementine." Beautiful Linda Darnell's role of Chihuahua, the fiery cafe singer, is said to be her finest to date. It is primarily as a result re-sult of this performance that Linda was awarded the coveted title role in the forthcoming Forever Amber. Victor Mature in the role of "Doc" Halliday has a part which opens new vistas for him as a western star. As a steely, hard, enigmatic gunman, utterly, reckless reck-less with his life, Mature is given generous opportunity to display his outstanding acting versatility. It is around the three characters charac-ters portrayed by Fonda, Miss Darnell and Mature, along with the vicious, cattle-rustling Clan-ton Clan-ton family headed by Walter Brennan, that the action-packed story revolves. But gun-fighting, madly careening stage coaches and the battle to bring law and order to Tombstone are supplemented in "My Darling Clementine" with a stormy romance ro-mance between Victor Mature and Linda Darnell, as well as a more leisurely courtship of Cathy Downs by Henry Fonda. |