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...letters of Elinore Randall form the historical basis of the film's plot. A widowed laundress, in 1910 she travelled with her seven-year-old daughter Jerrine across America to Wyoming, where a job keeping house for cattle rancher Clyde Stewart awaited her. The relations among these three, Stewart's hired hand, and a female neighbor make up that part of the movie concerned with things human...
...acting suits this blushlessness. Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart lets little pass between his long beard and omnipresent pipe; the very model of a taciturn Scot and rancher, he is a strong, silent physical presence with a reassuring capacity for humor and gentleness. Torn explained his feelings about the role during a recent interview: "I would have done anything to do this film...we all worked for minimum, which after taxes barely covers your expenses." Although the end of shooting saw Torn sufficiently insolvent to borrow money, he remains unperturbed: "Jobs come along and you do them, shitty jobs...
Raymond J. Kenney, Spievack's attorney, and Clyde Bergstresser, Glicklich's attorney, agreed yesterday that reversals by trial judges in malpractice cases are relatively rare...
Thomas E. Clyde...
...poisonings, of the union-busting towns in the West that were run for and by thugs. Lead ruled in such towns, and in the cities too, and brought all the social amenities usually associated with superior firepower. There was Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone. There was Bonnie and Clyde and J. Edgar Hoover. America was well on its way to becoming the single most violent nation on the face of the earth, and yet mystery writers were still trapped in a Gothic sinkhole...