Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1960

Heller in Pink Tights (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) is a western in which Sophia Loren portrays an actress. Otherwise the picture is reasonably believable. It tells the story of a smalltime theatrical troupe that played the road while it was still a buffalo track between the gold and eattle towns of the Wild West. Actress Loren is the leading lady of the company, but she is actually no lady. When she runs out of money in a poker game, she pledges her fair white body and promptly loses to a gunslinger (Steve Forrest). But sure enough,...

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