Post by teleadm on Apr 11, 2018 17:39:39 GMT
The Virginian 1946, directed by Stuart Gilmore, based on Owen Wister's novel and play, starring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Henry O'Neill, William Frawley and others.
In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher (Britton) is courted by two cowpokes (McCrea and Tufts) but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers led by Trampas (Donlevy).
What have made Owen Wister's novel such a classic is difficult to decipher from this movie as it plays. With beautiful outdoor scenery from California, and yes it's in Technicolor. It's entertaining enough without being remarkable, and Donlevy makes a good villian all dressed in black.
I wouldn't call it a matinee, since there is a very dark scene.
In the lighter scenes McCrea makes good use of what he has learned in the comedies he's been in up untill this movie.
In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher (Britton) is courted by two cowpokes (McCrea and Tufts) but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers led by Trampas (Donlevy).
What have made Owen Wister's novel such a classic is difficult to decipher from this movie as it plays. With beautiful outdoor scenery from California, and yes it's in Technicolor. It's entertaining enough without being remarkable, and Donlevy makes a good villian all dressed in black.
I wouldn't call it a matinee, since there is a very dark scene.
In the lighter scenes McCrea makes good use of what he has learned in the comedies he's been in up untill this movie.