Word: dialogic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dialog is as seasoned as the film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine...