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The Last Wagon (20th Century-Fox). "Oooo!" gasps Felicia Farr, "I didn't know Comanches kissed like this!" She is all alone on a butte with Richard Widmark, a renegade white raised by Indians, who promptly introduces her to some even more interesting Comanche customs. "Girls and ponies both," Widmark muses. "The younger you break 'em in the better . . . You been broke in yet?" Felicia says no, but it's obvious she'd like to be, especially after he tells her about a tepee lie has seen that is all of 20 feet across. But before they can move in, there are a few details to be attended to—like say 300 Apaches waiting for them to come down off that butte. There is the further difficulty of four murders charged to Widmark's account, but a kindly old general s willing to forget about such minor matters if the hero is willing to accept the heroine's custody for as long as they both shall live—a decision the synopsis calls 'worthy of Solomon."
Back from Eternity (RKO Radio) is a sort of air-travel poster that looks as if t had been issued by the railroad lobby. As the Aere Pan Latina plane, a beat-up old bimotor, goes whiffling over the Cenral American jungle, the pilot (Robert Ryan) has a black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers—a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with plenty to cushion her fall. Pretty soon a storm comes up, and he plane goes down in a jungle inhabited by headhunters. Everybody is terribly worried, of course, as well they may be. Perhaps they remember the 1939 version of this movie called Five Came Back. Since there are eleven of them, things look bad for at least six.