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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 20, 2020 22:12:37 GMT
just picked this up from my library---anyone seen it?  |
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 21, 2020 6:21:45 GMT
His best performance.
Atticus was a walk in the park compared to this.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 21, 2020 6:25:39 GMT
YES ... it's really good !
but ... watch it quick before reading too much about it and before anyone tells the ending "because it's an old movie that everyone has seen " ... !
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 21, 2020 17:10:31 GMT
I've seen it many times. It's great.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 21, 2020 17:31:46 GMT
My full review will show up in the weekly What Classics Did You See...thread at about 2:00pm (1400 hours) Eastern Time. Check it out everybody.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 23, 2020 5:12:43 GMT
My full review will show up in the weekly What Classics Did You See...thread at about 2:00pm (1400 hours) Eastern Time. Check it out everybody. Nice! |
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Post by telegonus on Dec 23, 2020 9:57:44 GMT
Great film, and true to its genre as well. Excellent performances, and not just from Gregory Peck (superb, seeming to be playing older than he is); also, Millard Mitchell. I admit that The Gunfighter impressed me less the first time around,--almost like an entry in one of those "thinking man's" TV anthologies of the Fifties--but it cuts deeper than that, rises above its somber tone.
Worth paying attention to for those who love offbeat musical scores; Alfred Newman's is wonderful, played behind the opening credits,--even behind the Fox opening logo--and it's a deceptively vigorous, stirring opening to a dramatic western. This is a more subtle score than many of us have come to expect as "normal" for the time. It's a far cry from what Dimitri Tiomkin, and later, Elmer Bernstein would compose for westerns not far down the line.
First rate all the way, I can't recommend this film highly enough. It's in the same league as an only slightly earlier Peck-Henry King collaboration, 12 O'Clock High, another great film that just seems to get better with age, and which also is so assured in writing, acting and photography that it's free from "tricks of the trade". It just is what it is, plain, simple and, when one thinks about it afterwards, brilliant.
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