Think back to the old oaters, with the heavy getting caught selling guns or firewater to the Indians. These days, with far better attitudes, such themes have lost their appeal.
One of my favorite John Ford Westerns is MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, about the Earps and the Clantons at the OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. This is fine, and a great picture, but Ford has Monument Valley images for us, when Tombstone is far to the South. This didn't matter to Pappy Ford--he liked Monument Valley and you were going to look at it.
Kindly indulge my brief review: I forever adore my fellow Texan, the luscious Linda Darnell. In this one, she's the ill-fated bar girl, Cherokee, who dies for love of Doc Holliday, played by Victor Mature in his best acting job. Henry Fonda portrays Wyatt, and Walter Brennan all but steals the picture as Old Man Clanton.
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I haven't seen this one before. What a fine poster- it grips you.
Think back to the old oaters, with the heavy getting caught selling guns or firewater to the Indians. These days, with far better attitudes, such themes have lost their appeal.
I agree that it wouldn't fly today- and why is a man in psuedo-Plains Indian attire out near Monument Valley in the desert? But it still looks cool.
One of my favorite John Ford Westerns is MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, about the Earps and the Clantons at the OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. This is fine, and a great picture, but Ford has Monument Valley images for us, when Tombstone is far to the South. This didn't matter to Pappy Ford--he liked Monument Valley and you were going to look at it.
Kindly indulge my brief review: I forever adore my fellow Texan, the luscious Linda Darnell. In this one, she's the ill-fated bar girl, Cherokee, who dies for love of Doc Holliday, played by Victor Mature in his best acting job. Henry Fonda portrays Wyatt, and Walter Brennan all but steals the picture as Old Man Clanton.
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