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Never really cared for this movie, due to the depressing backstory of the stars.
One thing about this time period I find interesting there were a series of films set in the "contemporary west" dealing with the postwar "cowboy". Something of a revision of the traditional view of the cowboy, not so noble, darker. Movies like Red River, The Searchers, Giant, Bad Day At Black Rock, Lonely Are The Brave (one of my favorites), and Hud among others. I think this was an important development because it signaled a reaction to the extreme patriotism/jingoism of the McCarthy era by examining the reality of the iconic American cowboy. It also paved the way for some of the greatest of the westerns, movies such as The Wild Bunch, Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwoods movies, Monte Walsh, Will Penny, The Culpepper Cattle Company, etc.
(Sorry if this is off topic) Red River and The Searchers are movies that fascinate me because the traditional American hero, John Wayne, put himself out there in the first of the truly dark revisionist westerns. He so often gets blasted for being a caricature but in those films he really went out and confronted some of the ugliness of the American western expansion.
One thing about this time period I find interesting there were a series of films set in the "contemporary west" dealing with the postwar "cowboy". Something of a revision of the traditional view of the cowboy, not so noble, darker. Movies like Red River, The Searchers, Giant, Bad Day At Black Rock, Lonely Are The Brave (one of my favorites), and Hud among others. I think this was an important development because it signaled a reaction to the extreme patriotism/jingoism of the McCarthy era by examining the reality of the iconic American cowboy. It also paved the way for some of the greatest of the westerns, movies such as The Wild Bunch, Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwoods movies, Monte Walsh, Will Penny, The Culpepper Cattle Company, etc.
(Sorry if this is off topic) Red River and The Searchers are movies that fascinate me because the traditional American hero, John Wayne, put himself out there in the first of the truly dark revisionist westerns. He so often gets blasted for being a caricature but in those films he really went out and confronted some of the ugliness of the American western expansion.
