Word: stagecoach
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Mulligan's greatest strengths are, in fact, in his honest exploitation of the inglorious West. The stagecoach is a jerry-built, rickety job; the dust storms saturate the sky until there is no room to breathe; the silences and empty spaces reduce men to infinite specks. In perhaps the most daring reversal of stereotypes, Mulligan has cast an actual Apache boy (Noland Clay) as Salvage's son. Clay, 11, offers no Hollywood charm, no cloying cuteness, not even a single smile. Even W. C. Fields would have liked...
...social history of violence. But he does mount nice rogues' gallery snapshots of such Pinkerton-defying sinners as Confederate Spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow (whose charms earned her a peek at the blueprints of various forts around Washington) and "Old Bill" Miner, who held up his first stagecoach in 1866 and his last train in 1911. He also manages a rough-edged portrait of Founder Allan Pinkerton, No. 1 bloodhound of heaven...
...somewhat lyrical burst of prose, Federal Appeals Judge Charles Fahy took the occasion to lament: "The romance of railroad building is all but lost in the welter of data before us. The merger will bring about changes in vast enterprises that took over from the pony express, the stagecoach and the covered wagon...
...wonder what he's doing there." She described Dirk Bogarde in Accident: "He aches all the time all over, like an all-purpose sufferer for a television commercial, locked in with a claustrophobia of his own body and sensibility." And she disposed of Ann-Margret in a remake of Stagecoach: "She does most of her acting inside her mouth...
...Motion Picture Association, is bringing it all back home. As archive director, Kahlenberg ferrets out American films of artistic and historical value that have disappeared for one or another reason. Some have vanished (like Hawks' Scarface, produced by the ubiquitous Howard Hughes, and all 35mm prints of Ford's Stagecoach) and the problem is one of location; others, like whatever remains of Stroheim's original cut of Greed, are in serious danger of destruction by decay. Until the last decade, film was made from a nitrate base, both flammable and subject to erosion. The film archivist works against time...