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Garden of Evil (20th Century-Fox) is a western for farsighted people. The foreground-in which four hombres (Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell, Victor Manuel Mendoza) trail off after a pert little gold digger (Susan Hayward) in search of gold or whatever else may be in them thar hills-is hardly worth looking at. But the background, the Mexican landscape, is one of the grandest the world has to show, and the gates of the CinemaScope camera are flung wide to show...
...conclusion that the only way to achieve universality is by picturing what one knows well. He returned to his own country-boy beginnings for inspiration -and came to be hailed as a Bruegel of the Corn Belt. July Hay, one if his best pictures, suffers from a finicky foreground and stagy middleground, yet shows a solid skill and assurance...
Seen across a room, the picture looked rather like an abstraction. Somber in color, it had a surging quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait...
...feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot on the spot in Mexico, is almost striking enough to divert the moviegoer's attention from the foolish events going on in the foreground...
...succession of adept nature painters named Rauff, Gsis, Loeftz and Lindenschmidt. They taught him to make a detailed charcoal sketch on canvas and paint over it, starting with the sky ("If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day") and working toward the foreground, finishing each part separately. Such grandiose subjects as sunsets and stampedes, he learned, may take up to six months to finish. But for Leigh, the finished result, an almost photographic naturalism, is well worth the effort...