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...letters of Elinore Randall form the historical basis of the film's plot. A widowed laundress, in 1910 she travelled with her seven-year-old daughter Jerrine across America to Wyoming, where a job keeping house for cattle rancher Clyde Stewart awaited her. The relations among these three, Stewart's hired hand, and a female neighbor make up that part of the movie concerned with things human...
...acting suits this blushlessness. Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart lets little pass between his long beard and omnipresent pipe; the very model of a taciturn Scot and rancher, he is a strong, silent physical presence with a reassuring capacity for humor and gentleness. Torn explained his feelings about the role during a recent interview: "I would have done anything to do this film...we all worked for minimum, which after taxes barely covers your expenses." Although the end of shooting saw Torn sufficiently insolvent to borrow money, he remains unperturbed: "Jobs come along and you do them, shitty jobs...
...notorious scene stealer, Beery played a lovable Mexican bandit in The Bad Man (1941). Reagan was the rancher he befriended...
...They will drive a flock from place to place and keep sheep from straying. But such dogs need constant supervision. What is required is a different kind of canine, guarding dogs that will patiently watch over a flock for weeks at a time, even in a lonely pasture. A rancher need only appear occasionally to leave food. Usually large (up to 135 lbs.) and slow to anger, the animals stir to action only when their charges are threatened. They live with the flock almost as if they were sheep themselves...
DIED. Jack Zuinglius Anderson, 76, California rancher who was elected to seven consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1939, and later served President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a congressional liaison specializing in farm legislation; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollister, Calif...