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Show Beery and Taylor In "Stand Up and Fight" The outdoor action melodrama, dear to the hearts of film fans ever since the days of such early Western stars as William S. Hart. William Farnum and Tom Mix, comes into its own again with Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor as its protagonists, protagon-ists, in "Stand Up and Fight," which plays Sunday and Monday, March 5 and 6, at the Cameo Theatre. Teamed for the first time, Beery and Taylor co-star in a story of Western Maryland in 1850's, when the railroads and stagecoach lines were engaged in a bitter struggls for right-of-way as the population of the United States surged westward. west-ward. Semi-historical in theme, "Stand Up and Fight" presents a period and locale new to motion pictures, pic-tures, but presenting all the elements ele-ments of the best of the action Westerns including two bare-knuckle fights between its stars, a saloon brawl, jail dynamiting, a race between be-tween train and stage coach, a covered cov-ered wagon wreck and a series of gunfights. Florence Rice wins her most important im-portant assignment to date as Tay lor's leading lady in the adaptation .of the Forbes Parkhill novel, while a notable supporting cast includes such names as Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford, Charley Grapewin, John Qualen, Barton MacLane, Robert Rob-ert Gleckler and Clinton Rosemond. W. S. Van Dyke II, who first made a name for himself as writer, director and cutter of Westerns in the days of Essanay, directed "Stand Up and Fight" with Mervyn LeRoy producing. |