Male Animal, The pirates William Holden portrays tough-minded Roper

William Holden portrays tough-minded Roper in a Western acclaimed for its scenic vistas (shot in Death Valley) and for sequences that showed a major action filmmaker was on the rise

He throws a swanky party where only his murder suspects have been invited

Bette Davis starts as a young woman embroiled in the mystery surrounding an ancient

as the wheels start coming off the love wagon in hilarious and surprising ways

Male Animal, The pirates William Holden portrays tough-minded RoperHis fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle of the sexes bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of narrower hat size seek to stop him. Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man of action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex gridiron star (Jack Carson) once perhaps