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...knock off the villain next time he shows up, the mayor (Henry Fonda) is too frightened to kill and too tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets his wish when Keenan Wynn jounces into town with a wagonload of cuties to entertain the local miners. Pretty soon the whole town swings like a pair of saloon doors, and gold and whisky are as plentiful as hossflies...
Riding south with a wagonload of symbolic refugees from reality, the tough Hombre wards off a bandit attack led by Richard Boone. But Boone manages to kidnap an Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming...
Cloete writes with a wagonload of wooden cliches, a compelling wealth of historical detail, and a too, too tumescent indignation. He is a leading member of Britain's Anti-Slavery Society, and he provides an appendix showing that white-slave traffic is still surprisingly busy today. All the same, Cloete's outrage would be a little more convincing if his rapes, orgies, flagellations and assorted other perversions were described with a little less prurience...
...husband, who died 15 years ago, had been a picture framer whose practice was to buy old frames which he would then regild and use. Often the pictures in the frames went with the deal. On one such occasion in 1933, Mrs. Savage recalls, her husband bought a wagonload of frames at an average price of 10 shillings each from a dealer in York, who for good measure happened to throw in a florid baroque painting of a traditional mythological subject, The Judgment of Paris...
...action. Among them is a hilarious cameo performance by James Stewart, who right around intermission time pops up in Dodge City for an irrelevant but clearly intentional spoof of Wyatt Earp. He guzzles, gambles, wisecracks, finally rides his rig out to drive off the Injuns, cheered on by a wagonload of painted ladies...