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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : May, 1956 DVD Release : 23 May, 2006 |
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The Proud Ones description The main draw (and quick draw) of this 1956 Western is the marvelous presence of Robert Ryan in the lead role. This underappreciated actor plays a Kansas marshal with a history of perceived cowardice in his past. Everything comes to a head in a single week: a cattle drive ends in town, bringing shootin' and hollerin'; Ryan's nemesis, a casino-runner p ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Building blocks stolen from HIGH NOON |
| The pieces of this story clunk into place with all the finesse of concrete building blocks. And some of those blocks wear the HIGH NOON brand. Except that Robert Ryan is no Gary Cooper and Virginia Mayo is no Grace Kelly. Altho, Jeff Hunter just about matches Lloyd Bridges thanks in large part to a larger, more sympathetic role. By the end of the film, the parallels to the older film were too blatant to ignore or deny.
The only reason I watched this one again, anyway, was for the music -- the haunting theme song by Lionel Newman, whistled against a guitar riff. There are other virtues, however. Director Robert Webb and cinematographer Lucien Ballard and crew made this Western look fresh (don't base your impression on the cover art to this DVD which seems to come from another source). In a supporting role, the normally distracting Walter Brennan gives a good, restrained performance. And for those of us who remember that era, there are soooo many familiar faces (eg, Robert Middleton, Rodolfo Acosta, Arthur O'Connell, Whit Bissell, Ed Platt, Richard Deacon and, fleetingly, Jackie Coogan). If I can get a hold of the theme song for my CD player, I'll probably never visit this film again. |
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