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Friday, February 15, 2013
Typical John Wayne western that seems just ridiculous enough
to be enjoyable but not real at all. There’s a love triangle, lots of
action-packing brawls, a gold rush and a typhoid fever epidemic all thrown
together in an hour and a half. Sometimes the scenes just rush by and you
wonder how it’s possible that so much could happen in only a few short minutes.
It was a pretty bad movie, although I enjoyed watching it for its “badness.” I
have to say that I was surprised that there was not more time and energy spent
on the love triangle (or square). Once it was set up, the other woman suddenly
disappeared and became a silent, unseen threat. Then a totally unexpected plot
twist with the gold rush coming on. So hat’s off to you, writers, on totally
surprising me with that one. I was not expecting the singer to suddenly abandon
the town and man she loved to become a nurse with all the grungy men of the
gold rush. I also learned that if you ever want to prove yourself a badass
without a fight all you have to do is bend a quarter and give it some kid like
it was no big deal. I’d write more about this movie but really there isn’t a
whole lot to say, it’s not John Wayne’s best. Our next movie to tackle is a documentary called Life in a Day.
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