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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 23 July, 1954 DVD Release : 25 June, 2002 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Enjoyable B-Western but nothing special. |
| Silver Lode was directed by: Allan Dwan in 1954. Dwan made many films in his career, which stretched from 1911 to 1961, although remained much the B-movie director in spite of his popularity in the 20s. The only film of any note would have to be the 1922 adaptation of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Silver Lode' is an enjoyable if not brilliant B-western, which acts as an analogy of HUAC / McCarthy witch-hunts of the 50s which takes its ques from High Noon (1952, Zinnemann). Cinematography was by John Alton who shot 2 great film noir pictures in the 40s: T-Men (1947, Mann) and Raw Deal (1948, Mann). He would also shoot the defining noir picture Big Combo' (1955, Lewis) the following year. I'll admit that I'm not fond of the colour cinematography in Silver Lode' but that may have something to do with the fact that the film is not in good condition with the colour tending to fade in and out occasionally. The film starred: Lizabeth Scott (Dead Reckoning, 1947), Dan Duryea (Criss Cross, 1948; Scarlet Street, 1945; Winchester 73, 1950) and John Payne (Miracle on 34th Street, 1947). Silver Lode' appeared in both 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' (Cassell Illustrated) and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons' (Johns Hopkins University Press) which lists 1000 essential films. The dvd transfer is only adequate with no significant extras. |
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