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While a gambler named Oakhurst, a lady of ill-repute, and a drunkard are indeed present in 20th Century Fox's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, it would require copious use of an opium pipe to discover any further similarities between the film and the Bret Harte story of the same moniker. This is not to say that the net result isn't mildly diverting, which it is, though the melodrama gets a little sticky around the fourth reel...
...Outcasts of Poker Flat (20th Century-Fox) plays hob with Bret Harte's somber 1869 tale about a gambler, a drunk and a couple of ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
...preface to the bound volume of Time's first six issues, which listed such contributors as Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte and W. S. Gilbert (The Bab Ballads), Yates wrote: "Believing that a monthly magazine should bear as close a relation as possible to contemporary events, I shall endeavour to supply my readers with materials which are of contemporary interest. National institutions will be examined and described-not as abstractions, but as concrete realities; and current affairs-whether in the region of science, art, literature, society, or politics-will be discussed from no purely theoretical standpoint. That is what...
...whose etymological studies was cited by Poet Bret Harte in his Ballad of Mr. Cooke...
...Bank Exchange there was a high mahogany bar, its top worn smooth, it was said, by the sleeves of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and others whose tongues and voices were loosened and made eloquent by that ambrosial drink...