Word: rescuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of noble heritage without the conventions of elegant social horseplay. The pair make excellent companions, and Sebastian leads his visitor in a scamper over Chevron's rooftops, in the course of which Anquetil saves him from slipping to the courtyard beneath. Taking advantage of his momentary prestige as rescuer, the explorer unburdens himself about his surroundings, analyzes the life of artificiality and compliance to which Sebastian is condemned. He pleads with the boy to come exploring with him. But Sebastian refuses, for his career has already begun: he is having a love affair with his mother's friend, Lady...
...more lurid than drawled "yes ma'ams" and "darn its" the blasting oaths which, in silent westerns, poured inaudibly from the lips of frontier villains. This Zane Grey story, however, is nicely photographed and contains all the proper western elements-mortgaged ranch, murdered cattleman, girl from the east, rescuer on horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish cattle-rustler; a scene in which a herd of wild horses rushes through a fence and over a sloping plain...