Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Came to Cordura. A sort of western Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands with moral depth, wartime violence and Gary Cooper...
They Came to Cordura. A sort of western Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands with moral depth, wartime violence and Gary Cooper...
...does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger motivation for the usual violent action, which in this film is intensified and refined into a genuine parable of the journey of the soul, a sort of Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands...
...Jidda he met his mutawwif-a professional guide who took Ahmed and 20 other Syrians under his wing for about $15 each, instructing them in the religious procedures required of a pilgrim and arranging food and lodging for the entire trip. Life used to be grim in Jidda during the ten days of the hadj, as heat-sick pilgrims squatted in the streets gathering strength for the 46-mile trek to Mecca. But newly rich Saudi Arabia has recently built a "Pilgrim City"-a roofed compound, equipped with food shops, electricity, running water and toilets. Here pilgrims wait...
...third aspect of the "new reality" "expresses the dual character of the Gospel, the having come and the anticipated coming. The concept of the "Pilgrim People," journeying towards a great and divine goal, expresses the dualism of the Gospel and its teachings...