Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brave One works a slim and simple fable about a boy and a pet bull in Mexico into a lovely and suspenseful film. Director Irving Rappe manages to conceal the obvious contrivances in his plot and setting, which depicts the most opulent peasant life imaginable...
...resents the almost blatant elements of explicit and implied propaganda that Messrs. Franklin and White have sandwiched into the scenario--the glories of Mexico; its glorious revolutionary history, superior view of life, the strong, brave, noble Mexican people, their gallant revolutionary leaders. All this is mixed with a subtle anti-Americanism. But these factors do not intrude on the skill and beauty with which the film is handled. Indeed the propaganda's very painlessness makes it insidious, giving strength to the allegation of Communist influence amidst the script writers...
...subject matter in less skilled hands could become sloppy and sentimental. The Brave One completely escapes these pitfalls, handling the boy-and-animal-against-the-wicked-world theme most touchingly. Michael Ray is completely fetching as the youth and he is supported by a most competent cast. The air and spirit of the bullring is handled freshly and dramatically, as is an absolutely chilling battle between the black bull and a cougar...
...half-dead marine in a rubber raft washed ashore on a beautiful South Pacific island inhabited by a beautiful nun. Mr. Allison and Sister Angela spend most of their time alone on the island learning how incompatible their words are, but what a wholesome friendship two brave souls in danger can discover...
...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...