Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jubal is not much like High Noon because it doesn't have any trains. And it isn't like Shane because it doesn't have a little boy. But not much else is missing...
Last time we went to the U.T., Hitchcock and Harry and we had considerable trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good...
...movie is filmed inside the forest--there aren't any false great scenic vistas. In each sequence there are usually trees overhead--so that the life shown isn't abstracted from the forest. The death of a fox is seen as a fox would...
...professional actors, the writing, filming and production has been done by the Swedish director, Arne Sucksdorff. His dim photography sometimes suggests a world of creatures from Chagall's paintings. But comparisons are unimportant; the film gets close to the life of the forest without distorting its rhythm, which isn't often done...
...father died, leaving him a fortune, and the general marked the event with a dinner for 150 guests. He collected girls galore, got himself elected again to Congress and, with a troupe known as "the wrecks of the Civil War." did some bellicose barnstorming against William Jennings Bryan. "Isn't he a bully boy!" exclaimed Philosopher William James...