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...badman (Aldo Ray) is the worst wrongo since Johnny Ringo. He breaks the tops off whisky bottles before he downs their contents, rapes and kills a dance-hall girl, sets fire to buildings and, all in all, makes the town of Hard Times a place to forget. While another dance-hall girl (Janice Rule) and a young boy conspire to knock off the villain next time he shows up, the mayor (Henry Fonda) is too frightened to kill and too tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets...
...Japanese original, the American remake weaves four differing versions of a crime into a philosophical conundrum about the nature of truth. While waiting out a thunderstorm at a desolate western whistlestop, three men fall to reminiscing about all the sex and sinnin' that came out at a badman's trial for murder. Seems a Southern dandy (Laurence Harvey) and his wife (Claire Bloom) had been lured into a woodsy glen by a notorious Mexican bandit (Newman), who bound the husband to a tree and then raped the wife. Later, the husband was found dead and the case came...
McLintock. A John Wayne western used to be as rigidly formalized as a Japanese No drama: sheriff v. badman, farmer v. cowman and all that. This latest epic shovels up songs, slapstick, civic spirit and a drawing room comedy cut to the size of a range war. It is dedicated to the proposition that where there's a will, there's a Wayne, or even several of them. McLintock is produced by Son Michael, 29, casts Daughter Aissa, 7, in a minor role, and features Heir Apparent Patrick Wayne...
...catchers that make purists accuse him of being a theatrical prankster: mourners with black umbrellas at Ophelia's burial; a Laertes who waves a revolver in Claudius' face and a Claudius who gets the revolver and slyly pockets the cartridges, like a silent-movie badman. If Guthrie seems to scramble his props, mixing candles with flashlights, snap-brim fedoras with Kaiser Wilhelm helmets, it may be that he means to suggest the wild and whirling confusion of Hamlet's brain, the visible signs of time uncontrollably out of joint. But apparently even the most forceful director...
...Cassandra Smith, c/o Badman, phone...