Word: herds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF- Still one of the most infectiously amusing, with the human jackass leading the middle-class herd...
...Thundering Herd shows buffalos on the plains of the western U. S., hundreds of thousands of buffalos, all thundering. Where white men live on that noise, building fires of buffalo chips to cook buffalo steaks, love lifts its old song. Zane Grey wrote the book. Eulalie Jennings is the hardened wife of the crooked nomad, Noah Beery. Lois Wilson is an unhappy ward. Jack Holt strides about, looks manly...
Hence the first meeting was a surprise to Mr. Fradd. It was not necessary to adjourn to a larger hall. No milling herd of flesh waited to be divided into sections. No, they were easily taken care of all three of them...
...when he was our guest here in Washington. The real feature of this story was that it was not "unpitying hunters" who slew them but the natives living outside the Park. Each hunter is allowed one elk. Mr. Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over, they would pick out their elk, often leaving large numbers on the ground which no one dared to claim. They are so ignorant about it and it was such plain slaughter that a case is known where the people had half skinned a donkey...
Sundown. The chief impression afforded by this film is that all the cows in the world were assembled. This bovine convention purports to be the "last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...