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Angel & The Badman (1947)
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How can you go wrong with a movie featuring the great Harry Carey as a philosophical lawman named Wistful McClintock? Well sir (or ma'am), you can't, and this first production from John Wayne's personal unit at Republic is simply one of the loveliest Westerns anybody ever made. The producer-star plays gunslinger Quirt Evans who, wounded by his archrival Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot), is taken in and sheltered by a Quaker family--in particular, by the daughter of the household, a dark-eyed angel (Gail Russell) who could entice Satan himself to the path of virtue. Not that these good people get pushy about converting "Brother Evans." For his...
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Angel & The Badman Movie Review by B Movie Ben  (5/23/2007) |
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The John Wayne Marathon has reached the halfway point - 17 hours of The Dukes action.
This is a real departure as Wayne is being ensnared by a Quaker girl (Gail Russell). he struggles to give up his past and there are many pitfalls along the way to a dramatic conclusion when he makes a choice.
Harry Carey joins the Duke...
(complete Angel & The Badman review by B Movie Ben)
| Angel & The Badman Movie Review by AJ (8/21/2006) |
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Angel and the Badman is a very clever western, and does a superb job of subverting a lot of the standard western conventions. It's even more impressive considering the film was made at a time when westerns were still all the rage but well before Leone completely shook up the genre; it took guts to do some of this. John...
(complete Angel & The Badman review by AJ)
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