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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 19 July, 1945 DVD Release : 04 September, 2001 |
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Along Came Jones description Along Came Jones is one of the most oddball artifacts from Hollywood's golden age. Gary Cooper (who doubled as producer) plays Melody Jones, a "common ordinary useless bronc-stomper" who moseys into the town of Payneville--or is it Painful?--just after legendary bad ass Monte Jarrad has held up the stagecoach. The townsfolk eyeball the "MJ" on Melody's stirrup, leap to hysterically wrong conclusions, and start giving him a wide berth--in some cases, the better to lie in ambush for "Jarrad" while planning how to spend the bounty money. Now, as it happens--and as his crusty sidekick George (the insuperably irreverent William Demarest) keeps reminding him--Melody can barely get his gun out of the holster without blowing his own kneecap off. All that stands between him and extinction is the quick-thinking intervention of a local maiden, one Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). Melody, of course, promptly becomes hogtied with love, not suspecting Cherry's the childhood sweetheart of the real Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea).... Stylistically the film is a wild mix, with director Stuart Heisler paying close attention to down-the-gun-barrel point of view in several scenes, yet also sitting still for floaty back-projection photography so egregious that it may bring on motion sickness. Still, Nunnally Johnson's script is droll; Cooper clearly relished the chance to poke fun at his strong-silent stereotype; and he and Preston Sturges stalwart Demarest establish a sardonic comic rapport. --Richard T. Jameson |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Poor Film - Very Flat |
| This is just about as flat a film as you could make. The premise was the old mistaken identity one - a regular cowpoke is mistaken for a violent killer. Given a quality director and a MUCH better script something might have been made of this. Frankly the actors appear to be standing around waiting for someone to tell them what to do next. The Annie get your gun stuff trotted out at the finish seems not so much perdictable, as convenient. Very disappointing.
Loretta Young deserves far better on DVD - despite all the problems and the B budget look of the picture she's an A star, at times, ravishing with a Kelly LeBrock sultriness to her eyes. (Of course Young could also act.) When will those perverse Gods in the film industry release some of her best films - such as The Farmer's Daughter? I mean she did win the Academy Award - how hard can it be to sell it? Why issue the bad and not the good? This sort of bungled mess does no ones reputation any good. |
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