Word: imago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both slicks and pulps, wrote this one with historical knowledge and literary care. Director Joseph (Outcasts of Poker Flat) Newman obviously inspired his actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger he plays on TV's Have Gun, Will Travel, he shoots every word from the lip. But at the same time, Boone sets up a strong magnetic pole that centers the whole story...