thieves like us is a 1974 film directed by robert altman and starring keith carradine and shelley duvall .

the film was based on the novel thieves like us by edward anderson , which was also the source material for the 1949 film they live by night , directed by nicholas ray .

the supporting cast includes louise fletcher and tom skerritt .

the film was entered into the 1974 cannes film festival .

thieves like us ( film )

thieves like us ( film ) <EOT> we’d love your help . let us know what’s wrong with this preview of thieves like us by edward anderson .

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in many ways , thieves like us is altman ' s best work yet , his most stringent and evocative .

t - dub : gotta find me a doctor who ' s a thief like us .

thieves like us is a bit flatter and more muted than altman’s best work . but even in this small film , i’m struck by the originality and truth of his vision .

pragmatic adaptation : it ' s interesting to compare this film and they live by night to the novel . they both compress the novel in different ways ( they live by night is focused on bowie and keechie , thieves like us develops the other characters a bit more ) . thieves like us is 28 minutes longer than they live by night and didn ' t have to worry about the hays code . the naturalistic acting and rich period detail of thieves like us make it seem almost like a documentary , while they live by night plays like a stylized fictionalization of the same people and events .

thieves like us proves that when robert altman has a solid story and script , he can make an exceptional film , one mostly devoid of clutter , auterist mannerism , and other cinema chic .

like so much of his work , robert altman ’s “thieves like us” has to be approached with a certain amount of imagination . some movies are content to offer us escapist experiences and hope we’ll be satisfied . but you can’t sink back and simply absorb an altman film ; he’s as concerned with style as subject , and his preoccupation isn’t with story or character , but with how he’s showing us his tale .

my original thieves like us audiobook review and many others can be found at audiobook reviewer . thieves like us was originally published in 1937 and is part of the american noir of the 1930s and 40s collection . it provided the basis for two films : they live by night ( 1949 ) and thieves like us ( 1974 ) . the story focuses on bowie , chicamaw , and t - dub . bowie , the youngest of them , killed a guy when he was 16 . chicamaw and t - dub are convicted bank robbers . following their escape from a chain gang , the

a couple of things really stood out to me about thieves like us . this is one of those rare crime films , for instance , or more specifically a bank robbery film , where the focus is entirely on the criminals . we ' re not…

if your expecting bonnie and clyde forget it . this was fairly mundane and characters uninteresting . i really wanted to like this film because i normally like robt .

tewkesbury began her career in show business as an actress , appearing in television series such as producers’ showcase , my three sons , and the long hot summer . she also appeared in robert altman ' s mccabe & mrs . miller , thieves like us , and nashville . tewkesbury co - wrote the screenplay for thieves like us and wrote nashville , for which she was nominated for a wga award , a golden globe and a bafta film award in 1976 , winning the la film critics association award for best screenplay in 1975 .

altman liked to parody and subvert hollywood genre conventions . in thieves like us , he mutes the violence , which is an integral part of films with similar narratives like bonnie and clyde , and undermines the tension that genre chase sequences normally create by treating them in a casual , leisurely manner .

reading edward anderson ' s thieves like us was like coming back to an old familiar friend - - not because i had read it before , but because i remember nicholas ray ' s film version entitled they drive by night with farley granger and cathy o ' donnell so well . thieves like us is one of those noir novels that carry with it a heavy sense of doom . the story is of three bank robbers named chicamaw , t - dub , and bowie . one never looks into the mind of anyone outside the crime world , because they are all likel

edward anderson , thieves like us , avon books , new york , 1974 . anderson’s novel was first published by frederick a . stokes in new york in 1937 . the 1974 edition was produced to tie - in with the release of robert altman’s film of the same name .

thieves like us is pretty much a robert altman heist film , which makes sense it is a robert altman “heist” film . barely showing the heists and barely even looking at the economic issues surrounding the great depression backdrop for the heists , thieves like us has nothing much on its mind that does not pertain to these characters in some way . in many respects , the biggest take away from the film may very well be wondering just how much altman and united artists received from coca - cola . from shelley duvall pounding cokes back all film long to a literal coca - cola truck handing out the goods to kids and telling them it is healthy…

houseman concluded : “the whole feeling about it , as you can tell from comparing it with altman’s picture [ the much later thieves like us ( 1974 ) , based on the same source material ] … that was nick talking” ( 3 ) .

his latest two recordings are on the album “94 east” featuring prince , on which marshall appears on keyboards and bass guitar , and , in 2009 , on his self - produced single “cougars” , which has had notable success on itunes and was on the soundtrack of feature film “thieves like us” .

with thieves like us , altman has made an atmospherically rich film , both in its detailed evocation of rural settings and its use of shifts in weather—sunlight , thunder , rain , and darkness . the film also displays his characteristic use of overlapping dialogue , barely heard murmuring , and scenes where the frame is packed with foreground and background action .

lester said wild was like an elder brother during the making of the film . " the chemistry between us was just something very , very special , which lasted throughout our lives , " he said .

edward anderson’s 1937 novel thieves like us tells the story of bowie bowers , murderer and bank robber . bowie breaks out of prison with two companions , and they carry out a series of daring bank robberies . they may not be intellectuals , but they’re not stupid . they’re smart enough to know that in a corrupt society politicians , police , lawyers and businessmen are all in their various ways just “thieves like us” . lying low after a robbery , bowie meets and falls in love with keechie . bowie is funda

thieves like us doesn’t contain a musical score , but the radio is used as background throughout the film . nobody seems to be listening to the programs . sometimes a show like gang busters plays while they rob a bank , and a production of romeo and juliet can be heard when keechie and bowie have sex , but in the main the programs don’t comment on the action .

there ' s nothing elegiacs ! about “thieves like us . ” its feelings are expressed terseit seems to have been stripped down like a stock car , as if excess verbiage were another form of chrome finish . nor does one get any feeling of victims cornered by society , which was one the marks of the ray film and a carryover from those thirties movies that possessed social consciences .

published in 1937 , thieves like us is half noir , half romance entwined with a violent group of jail break bank robbers on a deadly mission for that elusive big score . post roaring twenties , that era is very much an influence on the novel with references to prohibition , the allure of bank robbing , and small time gangsters casing small town banks paramount throughout . thieves like us follows a band of prison escapees on the run from the law and on the look - out for quick scores . they take down a cou

joan tewkesbury discusses working with robert altman as the co - writer of thieves like us and the writer of nashville , then building her own directing career in television , the changes she has witnessed for woman directors , and the importance of the dga’s support of creative rights .

the film has no traditionally composed music score . the only music in the film is incidental or diegetic music i . e . source music like that heard broadcast from a radio .

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we have to do the same thing with film . [ slides : series of images of decayed film ]

bowie ( to the dog ) : you ' re just a thief like me .

prod co : rko radio pictures prod : john houseman dir : nicholas ray scr : charles schnee , adapted by nicholas ray from the novel thieves like us by edward anderson phot : george e . diskant ed : sherman todd art dir : albert s . d’agostino , al herman mus : leigh harline

" one of the great forgotten novels of the 30s . " - raymond chandler somewhere between the hardboiled talk of dashiell hammett and the dustbowl poetry of john steinbeck lies the doomed romanticism of edward anderson ' s ' thieves like us ' . when three small - time country gangsters break jail , they return , like moths to a flame , to the only life they know - smalltown bank - robbing .

fast - moving thriller about a trio of bank robbers who get a little too cocky . they ' re always sitting around talking about white - collar crime , saying " they ' re thieves just like us . " things get hot for them , and finally , only one of them is still free and alive .

“thieves like us” is not so perverse and witty as “the long goodbye , ” nor is it so ambitious as “mccabe and mrs . miller , ” but it is a more perfectly integrated work . it is full of things to think about , that hang in the memory like the details of a banal crime story on page 32 , which , though read quickly , won ' t go away . somehow you know that this happened .

robert altman ' s “thieves like us , ” which opened yesterday at the 68th street playhouse , is such an engaging , sharply observed account of a long‐lost time , and of some of the people who briefly inhabited it , that hope it doesn ' t get confused with other films that seem , superficially anyway , to have covered the same territory .

thieves like us , directed by robert altman ) screenplay by calder willingham , joan teak and mr . altman , based on the novel by edward anderson , produced by jerry bick ; executive producer , george litto dlrecto of photography , jean bouttety ; editor , lou lomberdo ; distributed by united artists . running time : 123 minutes . at the 68th street playhouse , at third awn . this film has been rated r .

the movie’s fault is that altman , having found the perfect means for realizing his story visually , did not spend enough thought , perhaps , on the story itself . “thieves like us” is not another “bonnie and clyde , ” and yet it does end in a similar way , with a shoot - out . and by this time , we’ve seen too many movies that have borrowed that structure ; that have counted on the bloody conclusion to lend significance to what went before . in “thieves like us , ” there just wasn’t that much significance , and i don’t think there’s meant to be . these are small people in a weary time , robbing banks because that’s their occupation , getting shot because that’s the law’s occupation .

a sleepy film about a motley collection of dim , but well - meaning failures . a perfect altman film , in other words .

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three escaped prison convicts try to avoid recapture by the law while stuck in a life of bank robbing and wanting the things in life that they can’t have . the trio of thieves consists of young country boy bowie , wild man chicamaw and veteran criminal t - dub . when bowie falls for innocent tomboy keechie , cousin of chicamaw , he blindly believes that he can leave this dangerous life of crime behind . but in a noir world the end is always bleak and heartbreaking . thieves like us starts off as a classi

one glance at the bookshelf of volumes dedicated to italian neorealism might lead us to assume that there is very little left to say about what martin scorsese has called “the most precious moment in film history” .

this is worth the double dip if you already own the dvd . it ' s like seeing the film anew in this hd transfer . not my favorite altman , but recommended regardless .

the product placement for coca - cola is unreal in this . i don ' t like coke ( i ' m a root beer boy ) , but this flick had me jonesing so hard for a coke , that i ended up getting one and drinking it during the film . the whole time i was drinking it ( i still don ' t like coke ) i was just like " you got me altman " .

probably more like a 4 . 25 but i’ll round down . this is a great flick . i like it so much more than they live by night . everything there felt so rushed and hollywood but here it all feels leisurely and natural .

i quite enjoyed this classic crime noir novel , which i read as part of the library of america collection of american noir of the 1930s & 40s . characteristic of noir , in thieves like us , the protagonist bowie bowers is fighting a losing battle against a corrupt system and against himself . watching him self - destruct is painful but also poignant as it reflects on the more tragic side of human existence . i ' ve found you either like noir or you don ' t . it ' s not action packed , and there are no happy e

the radio is constantly on in the background of “thieves like us , ” but it’s not used as a source of music as it was in “ american graffiti ” or “ mean streets . ” the old shows we hear are not supposed to be heard by altman’s characters ; they’re like theme music , to be repeated in the film when the same situations occur . “gangbusters” plays when they rob a bank , for example , even though the bank would have been closed before “gangbusters” came on . that’s ok , because the radio isn’t supposed to be realistic ; it’s altman’s wry , elegiac comment on the distance between radio fantasy and this dusty , slow - witted reality .

it has to be said that the overall structure of a film like bicycle thieves does more to challenge hollywood conventions than films such as ossessione and rome , open city ( both above ) . it is closer , perhaps , to rossellini’s germany , year zero ( significantly , both films feature child protagonists who oscillate between passivity and agency ) . zavattini actually lamented the fact that he didn’t go far enough with bicycle thieves ; in fact his goal in subsequent years was to push this approach further . the results can be seen in umberto d , most notably in the morning sequence famously lauded by andré bazin in a contemporary piece on the film .

a minor work for altman but still another exceptional film in his genre experimentation period .

after giving up drink in 1989 , wild appeared in robin hood : prince of thieves with kevin costner in 1991 and in the channel 4 series lock , stock in 2000 .

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i think of arthur penn ' s “bonnie and clyde” and nicholas ray ' s “they live by night” ( 1949 ) , which , like “ ' sieves like us , ” was also based on edward anderson ' s 1937 novel . as fine as they were , this one is also an original work , limited only by the opportunities offered by the subject , and the style mr . altman has elected to work in .

bicycle thieves remains arguably the most famous neorealist work , but its production history ( explored by robert gordon in a recent bfi film classics monograph ) offers up a bewildering array of ‘what - ifs’ . much has been written on the fact that david o . selznick offered to finance the film , but only if cary grant played antonio . “it might make us laugh now , ” said screenwriter suso cecchi d’amico , “but selznick’s offer was taken very seriously and there was a high - level meeting about it . ”

hardscrabble in west texas , 1937 among the most glamorized and followed criminals of the great depression were bank robbers . how people might have found anything admirable in these people—among them bonnie and clyde , john dillinger , pretty boy floyd , machine gun kelly , a sprinkling of the better known bandits—should be no surprise to those who experienced the great recession . as anderson’s bowie bowers observes , “them capitalist fellows are thieves like us… . they rob widows and orphans . ” if you fi

“renoir seems to tell us that there are some emotions that man cannot give voice to so we must draw on everything that surrounds him to express them . ”

among the many visitors to the set was renowned photographer robert capa , who shot hundreds of behind - the - scenes pictures for magazine readers in the us .

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that’s the case with “thieves like us , ” which no doubt has all sorts of weaknesses in character and plot , but which manages a visual strategy so perfectly controlled that we get an uncanny feel for this time and this place . the movie is about a gang of fairly dumb bank robbers , and about how the youngest of them falls in love with a girl , and about how they stick up some banks and listen to the radio and drink coke and eventually get shot at .

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thieves like us published in 1937 , is a novel of a group of three bank robbers . that is the bare bones of the novel , but edward anderson adds quite a lot of flesh on those bones . this is not a simple tale of violence for its own sake . bowie bowers is the main character along with his girlfriend keechie , try to start a life separate from the notoriety of his bank robbing . the reader is taken through a couple of bank jobs and the aftermath considerations of their actions . bowie is a good hearted man , who really loves keechie and wants to have a life with her , but he is also loyal to his other two friends , even after one is killed and the other in prison . this novel shows that crime does not pay , but it also shows that all criminals are not looked down upon . those in power are sometimes just as guilty as these bank robbers . bankers and the police themselves can also be " thieves like us . "

this oversized ( 6”x 9” ) paperback is just right—the story of petty bank robbers set in the hardscrabble south of the 1930s ; not too long ; and spawning two extraordinary films , nicholas ray’s “they live by night” and robert altman’s “thieves like us . ” in ray’s hands , bowie ( the youngest of three bank robbers ) and keechie ( his girlfriend ) are virginal characters who were never taught the ways of a world that conspires to do them in . their victimhood—offset by bowie’s reckless optimism—makes them b

. . . you already have the studio issued dvd of this great movie , do not " upgrade " to the bluray like . . .

and at a certain point – exactly when is… “unfathomable” – words and images diverged , like two rivers , or two different paths to understanding .

" we ' ve lost a great artist and i ' ve lost a great friend , " said moody . " we were more like laurel and hardy . we used to call ourselves fagin and dodger . we had that kind of bond between us . jack really was cheated out of a great career . "

i became involved with the cause of preservation in the early 1980s , when i really understood just how fragile film was . since the early 90s , around the time we formed the film foundation , which was an idea by bob rosen to put all of us together , myself and a number of other directors , spielberg , and lucas and coppola and robert redford , sydney pollack… the film foundation was formed to bring the studios together with the archives .

robert altman’s fascinating and divisive psychological horror film receives a top - notch transfer from arrow academy .

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and of course so was georges méliès . [ film clip : g . méliès’ impossible voyage ]

but film isn’t made of stone . until recently , it was all made of celluloid , as i said before – thin strips of nitrocellulose , the first plastic compound . through the late 1940s , before nitrate film was replaced by safety film , nitrate film caught fire , it blew up - it could turn to powder and explode . in 1950 it was replaced with safety stock .

1937 book featured on tcm ' s noir alley . as is usually the case , the book is better as it didn ' t have to deal with code and producers . the author sold the rights for $ 50 and died penniless . if you like steinbeck , you ' ll like this .

the book’s theme is that everybody is a thief just like the bank robber protagonists . you know this because it repeats that every other page . dullllllll

i struggled with rating this book . anderson has a fine style and it is interesting novel about what the depression did to some poor people and how they each dealt with it according to their limitations including the limitations of their personalities . anderson is a poor plotter , however . while this is better plotted than his first novel hungry men , structurally you do not get to plot point 1 until half way through the book . there is just a lot of incidents prior to this that do not take us very far . plot point 2 ends the book , instead of setting up the ending of the book . there are certainly things to admire about thieves like us , but i found it overrated .

rosi’s previous film was the fascinating sacro gra , a prose - poetic study of the grande raccordo anulare , or ring road around rome , and the people who live on this margin . there is a similar effect in fire at sea . rosi has recorded quiet details from indigenous lampedusan lives at the periphery of something far more historically dramatic and sensational , but the quietly telling details are like jetsam , flung out centrifugally . the film does not take a view ; it does not demand action . it simply shows us the details , and i felt i learned more from this film than from the nightly tv news .

about the georgia latino film festival in honor of hispanic heritage month lista , the black latino council & the georgia latino film festival alliance celebrates its 5th annual georgia latino film festival to make sure that latinos through their films and indies continue to be told in the hollywood of the south and so we have a place in where latino film makers , executives and artists at the forefront of the latino film industry can come together , to discuss the future of latino film makers , writers , and directors . the galff has become one of the “fastest growing film festivals in the country –the galff is 4 inspiring days filled with premieres , workshops , panels , vip parties , and awards showcasing the top storytellers and film makers from around the world . we hope this is the place where careers will be born and a whole new community is empowered and we gain a better understanding and experience our rich culture through film .

what a shame you didn ' t like it better - that said , i think i was taken with the wonderful ' period ' feel of the writing .

the migrants themselves pass through the film almost too quickly for individual lives to be registered , except one nigerian who tells his story almost like a preacher or an actor : “the sea is not a place to pass by … the sea is not a road . ” this is daily life , the film is saying : maybe like life during wartime . it is not a temporary eruption or crisis that will be imminently solved within the conventional news cycle . here is the rhythm of daily existence ; it is lampedusa’s new normal .

though nora aunor and “thy womb” have garnered several international and local film awards , the film is not a commercial hit . last december , it was pulled out of the metro manila film festival by festival organizers due to low ticket sales . this despite “thy womb’s” brillante mendoza bagging best director at the mmff awards .

like many other countries , the sound film in japan did not reach popular acceptance until well into the 1930s , with many directors initially hesitant to embrace the new technology . only after the success of foreign talkies did companies such as nikkatsu or shochiku move decisively toward sound .

in the dusty towns of texas and oklahoma , three escaped convicts go to what they know , bank heists . along the way there is romance ( one aspect i absolutely liked ) , but overall , the book is a little thin . for me , i would have liked a little more detail on each of the heists along with more back story . i thought of thieves like us as more of an embellished screenplay . an added note , i liked how certain things were revealed in newspaper articles . wow , i am old school , i still read and enjoy newspapers .

there are so many reviews of this book , most of them kind , that i will only add how heartwrenchingly accurate are this novel ' s smallest , most personal , emotional details . crime novels are too often full up of fancy dangers that never happen—or at least that resound much louder on the page [ or certainly on the screen ] than they might , than they do , when they actually occur . ' thieves like us , ' out of the thousands of books i ' ve read , paints , i think , one of the finest portraits of the dips , the val

looks far more film like than the flat , saturated dvd . audio is via a dts - hd master 2 . 0 channel benefitting the minor effects and infrequent aggression . kino have included optional english subtitles and the original ' s altman commentary . they also add a trailer .

" i ' m not really a spiritual person , " mann continues . " but i sort of felt like i wasn ' t in control of this movie . it was almost like i was channeling bob . ' what would he do ? ' i kept asking . it just sort of fell together in this kind of organic way . "

and we have no choice but to treat all these moving images coming at us as a language . we need to be able to understand what we’re seeing , and find the tools to sort it all out .

the outline suggests “ bonnie and clyde , ” but “thieves like us” resembles it only in the most general terms of period and setting . the characters are totally different ; “bonnie and clyde” were anti - heroes , but this gang of altman’s has no heroism at all . just a kindof plodding simplicity , punctuated by some of them with violence , and by the boy with a kind of wondering love . they play out their sad little destinies against two backdrops : one is the pastoral feeling of the southern countryside , and the other is an exactly observed series of interior scenes that recapture just what it was like to drowse through a slow , hot summer sunday afternoon , with the radio in the background and the kids playing at pretending to do daddy’s job . if daddy is a bank robber , so what ?

“my goal , ” said director vittorio de sica about his approach to bicycle thieves , “was to look for the dramatic in ordinary situations , the wonderful in the smallest , the tiniest news item , in the material everybody considers insignificant . ”

n . b . those who wish to avoid prior knowledge of the story , particularly its climax , should put off reading these notes till after seeing the film . hopefully , then , they will want to see the film again !

program notes - set in the depression - era dustbowl , thieves like us follows one man’s quest to make his own morality . bowie bowers busts out of alky prison and goes on a spree of bank robberies with hardened criminals t - dub and chicamaw . his newfound gal keechie wants him to give up the life and settle down . bowie figures he’s no more a thief than the politicians and bankers who steal with their brains instead of a gun . when the law busts up the gang bowie is forced to make a decision : does he lam it for mexico with keechie by himself or does he break chicamaw out of jail to be their guide ?

, a film that garnered him his second oscar® nomination for best director as well as a best picture academy award nomination .

[ film clip : on the restoration of the red shoes ] none of this would have been possible before digital technology . but i have to say that we are too late . over 90 % of all silent cinema is gone . lost forever . every time a silent picture by some miracle turns up like john ford’s film he made in 1927 called upstream , which was recently discovered by the national film preservation foundation in an archive in new zealand – every time one of those shows up we have to remind ourselves that there are hundreds , maybe thousands more that are gone forever . so we have to take really good care of what’s left . everything , from the acknowledged masterworks of cinema to industrial films and home movies , anthropological films . anything that could tell us who we are .

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the former child star was nominated for an oscar for his performance as the amoral street urchin in the musical film of charles dickens ' oliver twist in 1968 . but like many actors who found fame at an early age , he spent almost two decades of adulthood in what he later admitted was " a drunken haze " .

like eisenstein’s october ( 1928 ) , pudovkin’s the end of st petersburg was commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the october revolution . it spans three years – from 1914 and the outbreak of world war i to the tumultuous events of 1917 . as vance kepley jr has noted in his 2003 monograph named for the film :

kino lorber’s blu - ray of walter hill’s 1980 western exceptionally preserves the hypnotic , oneiric beauty that undercuts the film’s chaotic violence .

oliveira , like ozu , chooses not to recreate the bustle of city life . the depopulated streets of porto allow the director to make the contrast between the restriction inside and the freedom outside the classroom .

[ film clip : 1895 film of train arriving in station by lumière brothers ] this film , by the lumière brothers in france , is commonly recognized as the first publicly projected film . it was shot in 1895 . when you watch it , it really is 1895 . the way they dress and the way they move . it’s now and it’s then , at the same time . and that’s the third aspect of cinema that makes it so uniquely powerful – it’s the element of time . again , pieces of time .

thieves like us uses the template of a bank robber movie to represent moments from the american depression . each scene plays out with equal measure given to humor , pathos , eccentricity of character , the unpredictability of life , and the blundering work of getting through the day as a human being . it’s emblematic of robert altman’s human ( and humane ) universe . at the dinner table , a crook reads from the newspaper about his gang’s exploits while the lady of the house is henpecking at the children to chew their food and eat their vegetables , and when our anti - hero discovers they are wanted dead or alive , an eerie pall is cast over the table as the stoic woman relays what is for dessert .

and this film [ film clip : the musketeers of pig alley by d . w . griffith ] is one of the dozens of one - reel films that d . w . griffith made in 1912 – it’s a remarkable film called the musketeers of pig alley . it’s commonly referred to as the first gangster film , and actually it’s a great lower east side new york street film . now if you watch , the gangsters are crossing quite a bit of space before they get to pig alley , which is actually a recreation of a famous jacob riis photo of bandit’s roost from five points , but you’re not seeing them cross that space on the screen .

de sica orchestrated the film carefully , shooting some scenes with multiple cameras and drawing attention to its existence as fiction , not a documentary . bazin termed it the " only valid communist film of the whole past decade " and the film was often seen as simply a criticism of working conditions in italy at the time , when unemployment stood at 25 percent . but unlike the clearcut moralizing of rossellini ' s films , de sica ' s works focus on a humanist sense of individual and mass . bicycle thieves has a mythic feel , the father ultimately forced into thievery , each moral quandary no sooner solved than de sica poses yet another , the father sympathetic but flawed .

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sin verguenza / shameless directed by manolo travieso written by jon molerio of “ladrones” fame . as far as con men go , billetin and pelucas are hardly “the a - team” , more like the “c or d - team . ” the kind of guys more suited to rob a lunch truck than a brinks truck . but like many low level thieves , they have aspirations of making it big someday with the heist of a lifetime . so when they get a tip about a multi - million - dollar mansion whose owner is on vacation , they can’tresist and decide to strip the place of all its valuables . but what they don’t count on is : the owner of the mansion coming home early

visconti had spent several years in france in the 1930s , where mutual friend gabrielle ‘coco’ chanel had introduced him to jean renoir . informally , visconti joined renoir’s troupe as they moved from film to film , culminating in the unfinished short une partie de campagne ( 1936 ) .

when shooting started on they live by night , nick ray told his cameraman george diskant : “every mistake in this film is going to be mine . everything that’s done here is going to be mine . i want to find out if film is for me , and if it’s not , i’ll go back to broadway . ” as a result of this experience , he “fell in love” with film ( 1 ) .

wild ' s last film reunited him with fellow oliver ! star ron moody , who played fagin , in moussaka and chips last year .

set during the 1930s , this film focuses on three escapees from a midwestern prison camp who go on a crime spree throughout the south . the film is a remake of they live by night , yet it is distinguished by robert altman ' s ' s distinctive , detailed characterizations .

proves that when robert altman has a solid story and script , he can make an exceptional film , one mostly devoid of clutter , auterist mannerism , and other cinema chic . it ' s a better film than nicholas ray ' s first jab at the story in 1948 . "

grierson could just as easily have been talking about visconti’s second neorealist film la terra trema – a film clearly influenced by flaherty , and in particular the michigan - born filmmaker’s man of aran . driven by a desire to use film to discover and reveal little known people and places , flaherty’s first film nanook of the north ( 1922 ) remains one of the best - known documentaries of the silent era , and while the director would travel the world in subsequent decades , his preoccupations remained those of his debut : the dangers of nature and the struggle of communities for survival .

[ slide : image of sumerian tablet ] when you look at ancient writing , words and images are almost indistinguishable . in fact , words are images , they’re symbols . written chinese and japanese still seem like pictographic languages .

29 . the transporter ( 2002 ) jason statham , who has now joined the fast and furious franchise , scored his first franchise playing an expert driver who gets paid to transport cargo — any kind of cargo , no questions asked . many of us underrated this movie at the time ; the silliness just seemed to be too much , and statham’s stoic demeanor felt stiff , despite his considerable physical prowess . but over the years , he and the film have grown on us , gaining a wonderfully surreal , retroactive sheen . this is a fun , freewheeling , and oh - so - french action flick — the kind of movie that can slow down to ruminate on madeleines and proust before proceeding with the mayhem . that , of course , is the europacorp house style . the luc besson–led production company has also given us the taken films , lucy , and any number of other nutty , corny , go - for - broke action spectacles .

raymond chandler declared this one of the great forgotten novels of the 1930s . i ' m not going to argue with chandler . anderson gives us a look at depression era bank robbers in oklahoma and texas . it was fertile ground with bonnie & clyde , dillinger , et . al . having been all over the newspapers . anderson looks at a trio of escaped convicts who are robbing banks in texas , before shifting the focus to a single character bowie bowers . the shift allows us to get a better glimpse in to the thought

famously , the romantic intrigues in the film itself were put in the shade by those behind the camera . producer dino de laurentiis married mangano shortly after the film was made while – shockingly – writer cesare pavese committed suicide after being jilted by constance dowling , sister of bitter rice actress doris .

[ film clip : vertigo , by alfred hitchcock ] this is a 1958 picture directed by alfred hitchcock that i’m sure many of you have seen , called vertigo . when this film came out , some people liked it , some didn’t , and then it just went away . even before it came out , it was classified as another picture from the master of suspense and that was it , end of story . almost every year at that time , there was a new hitchcock picture – it was almost like a franchise .

we seem to be running out of ways to describe the incredible longevity of portuguese director manoel de oliveira . at the time of writing the 103 - year - old is working on his latest film the devil’s church , after his previous work gebo and the shadow premiered at last year’s venice film festival .

which brings us to the boxing cats . [ film clip : cats boxing , filmed by t . edison in 1894 ] this appears to be two cats boxing . it was shot in 1894 , in thomas edison’s black maria studio that he had in new jersey – it was actually it was just a little shack . this is one among hundreds of little scenes that he and his team recorded in the studio with his kinetograph .

that trail , as mann notes , he found in altman ' s archives . " bob had kept a record of all the interviews he had done over his career , and so i was able to track them down . it ' s amazing that he left us such an audio - visual record of his life , which allowed me to make a film in his voice . most documentaries don ' t have access to the source .

it is full of things to think about , that hang in the memory like the details of a banal crime story on page 32 , which , though read quickly , won ' t go away . somehow you know that this happened .

classical cinema , as it’s come to be called , now feels like the grand opera of verdi or puccini . and we’re no longer talking about celluloid – that really is a thing of the past . for many film lovers , this is a great sadness and a sense of loss . i certainly feel it myself – i grew up with celluloid and its particular beauty , and its idiosyncrasies .

" the ballad of narayama " is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…

reality has no soundtrack : the film forgoes a music score in favor of having diegetic actual radio broadcasts from the great depression in the backgrounds of scenes .

the ruling in the 1915 case , mutual film corporation v . industrial commission of ohio , said essentially that because film was a purely commercial endeavor , it therefore had no artistic merit , and thus could not count as free speech . the decision was overturned in 1952 by joseph burstyn , inc . v . wilson .

visconti continued working throughout the 1950s , although he veered away from the neorealist path with his 1954 film , senso , shot in color . based on the novella by camillo boito , it is set in austrian - occupied venice in 1866 . in this film , visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism . however , as one biographer notes , " visconti without neorealism is like lang without expressionism and eisenstein without formalism . " he describes the film as the ' most viscontian ' of all visconti ' s films . visconti returned to neorealism once more with rocco e i suoi fratelli ( rocco and his brothers , 1960 ) , the story of southern italians who migrate to milan hoping to find financial stability .

altman was a visionary , an iconoclast , and a hollywood outsider who made such first - rate films as m * a * s * h ( 1970 ) , the player ( 1992 ) , short cuts ( 1993 ) , and gosford park ( 2001 ) , and great ones like mccabe and mrs . miller ( 1971 ) , the long goodbye ( 1973 ) , and nashville ( 1975 ) . he had his failures—the pretentious quinte t ( 1979 ) and egregious prêt - à - porter ( 1994 ) among others—but altman produced a substantial body of film that compared favorably with the work of illustrious contemporaries like scorsese , coppola , and the late john cassavetes .

“the lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits . under the filling - station sheds , swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs . the stores were closed ; the depot dark . ”

best actors . nora aunor and eddie garcia bolster pinoy pride after winning top acting honors at the 7th asian film awards . photo from ' thy womb ' facebook page

a short time later , renoir was invited to italy to lecture at the centro sperimentale di cinematografia , but the outbreak of world war ii forced him to abandon europe for the us . he left behind a treatment he had written of cain’s novel and this was the basis of what later became ossessione .

at a certain point , there was a reevaluation of hitchcock , thanks to the critics in france who later became the directors of the french new wave , and to the american critic andrew sarris . they all enhanced our vision of cinema and helped us to understand the idea of authorship behind the camera .


broken lance is a 1954 western film made by twentieth century-fox , directed by edward dmytryk and produced by sol c. siegel .

the movie stars spencer tracy and features robert wagner , jean peters , richard widmark and katy jurado .

shot in deluxe color and cinemascope , the film is a remake of house of strangers ( 1949 ) with the phillip yordan screenplay ( based upon the novel i 'll never go there any more by jerome weidman ) , transplanted out west , featuring tracy in the original edward g. robinson role , this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than a lower east side italian immigrant banker in new york city .

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broken lance <EOT> looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing broken lance near you .

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broken lance is a fox production directed by edward dmytryk in 1954 . philip yordan earned the 1955 academy award in the " best writing , motion picture story " category for it although it is now known that he didn ' t write a line of broken lance whose authorship goes back to joseph l . mankiewicz .

broken lance was made in 1954 and beautifully shot around monument valley . leading the cast is spencer tracy playing a tyrannical rancher , who find out as the story progresses has . . .

with both it being based on shakespeare ' s king lear and being a western remake of joseph l . mankiewicz ' s tasty film noir , house of strangers , broken lance had fine sources from . . .

broken lance is a 1954 western film made by twentieth century - fox , directed by edward dmytryk and produced by sol c . siegel . the movie stars spencer tracy and features robert wagner , jean peters and richard widmark .

rock hudson stars in seminole as 19th - century army officer lance caldwell . born and raised in . . .

broken lance is a 1954 western film made by twentieth century - fox , directed by edward dmytryk and produced by sol c . siegel . the movie stars spencer tracy and features robert wagner , jean peters , richard widmark and katy jurado .

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in the 1950 ' s , hollywood made several good westerns and " broken lance " is one of them . " broken lance " and " the searchers " have something in common , they are about a family living in the old west . except for katy jurado , this is everybody ' s best western . katy jurado ' s best western was " high noon " . this movie made robert wagner a leading man . it ' s great to see richard widmark as a bad guy . everybody in this movie had a meaty part .

although the saga of the self - made , autocratic cattle baron who helped shape the west is familiar film fare , " broken lance , " which landed at the roxy yesterday , makes a refreshingly serious and fairly successful attempt to understand these towering men . view full article in timesmachine »

broken lance [ dvd ] [ 1954 ] : urltoken spencer tracy , richard widmark , robert wagner , jean peters , katy jurado , earl holliman , hugh o ' brian , eduard franz , e . g . marshall , carl benton reid , philip ober , robert burton , edward dmytryck , sol c . siegel , richard murphy , philip yordan : dvd & blu - ray

crow has dated her fair share of high - profile hotties , including actor owen wilson , musician eric clapton and cyclist lance armstrong , although she admits there was never an equal balance in her previous relationships , which ultimately led to their demise .

the one and only spencer tracy stars in broken lance ( 1954 ) as a fierce rancher who has raised his sons ( played by richard widmark , robert wagner , earl holliman , and hugh o’brian ) with a potent work ethic but little paternal affection . before long , the brothers are at each other’s throats , with dramatic results for the whole family . also starring katy jurado , oscar® - nominated for her performance as tracy’s outcast wife , and jean peters as the young woman who catches wagner’s eye .

broken lance is the story of a family empire in the guise of a western . the plot is derived from king lear , though its more direct precursor is the film noir classic house of strangers ( 1949 ) , a similarly themed film also written by philip yordan . though yordan won an oscar for original story for lance , much of the credit for the tightly constructed film should go to screenwriter richard murphy , who keeps the film ' s focus on character and brisk pacing . the film is notable for a pro - environment subplot ( copper - mine pollution ) years before such themes became fashionable . the performances are top - notch - - spencer tracy and katy jurado in particular - - and the film is well - cast with reliable character actors in the supporting roles .

the same was true with former fiancé lance armstrong with whom she found herself feeling " really small , " admitting she became a " self - appointed caretaker " who was always checking to make sure that " everyone else was ok , everyone else was happy . "

rock hudson stars in seminole as 19th - century army officer lance caldwell . born and raised in florida , caldwell is assigned to fort king in the everglades . immediately clashing with his commanding officer major dade ( richard carlson ) , caldwell opposes dade ' s plans to . . .

nathan shows an excellent knack for complex plotting , especially for creating situations in which his characters are pulled in multiple directions by various loyalties and predilections . in the broken lance almost everyone is contemplating betraying everyone else , which results in a lot of enjoyable tension between the characters and suspense in the reader . it is a page turner . however , and i realize this is a sword and sorcery novel , at some points i found myself wishing the action scenes would get done with so as to get onto the more interesting plot considerations . on the other hand , that ' s probably just be my own preference . action junkies likely will not be disappointed .

lay to rest his own past in this film . joe , having served time in prison comes out full of resentment for his brothers who betrayed him and his father . but as a final gesture , he takes the indian lance planted in the ground next to his father’s grave and breaks it across his knee . he is done fighting .

saw broken lance last nite on encore western . it ' s my second viewing . i really enjoyed spencer tracy and kathy jurado . tracy is worth the price of admission and jurado ' s sad eyes never fail to draw me in . to those who say it ' s a play on joseph & his brothers , i ' m sorry i don ' t agree . beyond the superficial similarities , jacob ' s sons wouldn ' t have dreamed of disobeying him , let alone harming him the way the deveraux boys ( widmark , holliman , o ' brian ) do . the film has what i believe to be the best film courtroom sequences ever , i . e . the cross - examination of matt deveraux . definitely worth seeing .

" hey , i would love to get married — i ' m still old - fashioned . but i don ' t think marriage is the be - all and end - all , " the country crooner , whose parents have been married for 50 years tells the mag before poking fun at her own dating history . " it ' s better to have three broken engagements than three divorces . "

you ' re going to do broken arrow after that , ron ? interesting layout of this film . . . even with the stiffness that hasn ' t ever completely left him ( wagner does a decent job of self - parody these years ) , what a bunch of veterans and eventual veterans . . . there ' s little chance of a wagner ever blowing a tracy off the screen . . .

cheyenne , i agree ; you stick with it for tracy . charles , well put . yvette , good points . i like katy in high noon . walker , reviewers often compare it to king lear . patti , wagner ' s tv work probably did a lot to rescue him from oblivion . wild flower , you are right ; they remind me some of irene pappas and james cagney in tribute to a bad man . todd , already covered broken arrow a while ago ; better western by far .

side # 1 - - broken lance - pan and scan 1 . main titles [ 1 : 55 ] 2 . a proposition for an ex - con [ 8 : 36 ] 3 . an old friend [ 2 : 51 ] 4 . returning to what was [ : 19 ] 5 . appealing to her son ' s father [ 8 : 27 ] 6 . the men in charge [ 5 : 04 ] 7 . fighting for their rights [ 1 : 05 ] 8 . keeping up appearances [ 5 : 46 ] 9 . a matter of principle and law [ 7 : 03 ] 10 . concessions in court [ 2 : 04 ] 11 . what a father must do [ 4 : 10 ] 12 . the love of a good woman [ 9 : 11 ] 13 . too late to ask or change [ 12 : 05 ] 14 . a mother ' s counsel [ 1 : 24 ] 15 . a half - brother ' s hate [ 1 : 55 ] 16 . to bury the past [ 2 : 59 ] side # 2 - - broken lance - widescreen 1 . main titles [ 1 : 55 ] 2 . a proposition for an ex - con [ 8 : 36 ] 3 . an old friend [ 2 : 51 ] 4 . returning to what was [ : 19 ] 5 . appealing to her son ' s father [ 8 : 27 ] 6 . the men in charge [ 5 : 04 ] 7 . fighting for their rights [ 1 : 05 ] 8 . keeping up appearances [ 5 : 46 ] 9 . a matter of principle and law [ 7 : 03 ] 10 . concessions in court [ 2 : 04 ] 11 . what a father must do [ 4 : 10 ] 12 . the love of a good woman [ 9 : 11 ] 13 . too late to ask or change [ 12 : 05 ] 14 . a mother ' s counsel [ 1 : 24 ] 15 . a half - brother ' s hate [ 1 : 55 ] 16 . to bury the past [ 2 : 59 ]

the feisty , domineering cattle baron matt devereaux ( spencer tracy ) rules his vast empire with a ruthless hand . because matt ' s greatest love id for his indian wife , princess ( katy jurado ) and their son joe , matt ' s three sons from a previous marriage deeply resent them . after joe agrees to go to jail for a crime his father commits , he returns three years later to a different world - his father has died and his vengeful brothers control the land . own it on blu - ray & dvd : urltoken subscribe : urltoken about 20th century fox : official youtube channel for 20th century fox movies . home of avatar , aliens , x - men , die hard , deadpool , ice age , alvin and the chipmunks , rio , peanuts , maze runner , planet of the apes , wolverine and many more . connect with 20th century fox online : visit the 20th century fox website : urltoken like 20th century fox on facebook : urltoken follow 20th century fox on twitter : urltoken broken lance | # tbt trailer | 20th century fox urltoken

" broken lance " , made in 1954 , starred spencer tracy in the role of matt devereaux , a rancher whose iron will works better in controlling his cattle empire , than on his own sons . tracy had married a daughter of an indian chief , had a son by this marriage , and the three brothers from his earlier marriage have worked up a full head of resentments toward joe , played by robert wagner . ben , the oldest , played by richard widmark , particularly resents joe , and the relationship held between his father and his half - brother . ultimately , the father runs afoul of the legal forces over a matter of a mine polluting the water that his cattle drink from . the ensuing battle in court finds joe taking the rap , being sent to prison for 3 years , and ben , finally taking control of the ranch . after joe is released from prison , he returns to start his life anew , but finds that his father has died , his mother went back to her people , and the brothers would like to see him locate elsewhere . however , joe has other plans , and he and ben must settle the conflict between them .

actor : marlon brando in " on the waterfront " , humphrey bogart in " the caine mutiny " , bing crosby in " the country girl " , james mason in " a star is born " , dan o ' herlihy in " adventures of robinson crusoe " actress : grace kelly in " the country girl " , dorothy dandridge in " carmen jones " , judy garland in " a star is born " , audrey hepburn in " sabrina " , jane wyman in " magnificent obsession " supporting actor : edmond o ' brien in " the barefoot contessa " , lee j . cobb in " on the waterfront " , karl malden in " on the waterfront " , rod steiger in " on the waterfront " , tom tully in " the caine mutiny " supporting actress : eva marie saint in " on the waterfront " , nina foch in " executive suite " , katy jurado in " broken lance " , jan sterling in " the high and the mighty " , claire trevor in " the high and the mighty " director : elia kazan for " on the waterfront " , alfred hitchcock for " rear window " , george seaton for " the country girl " , william wellman for " the high and the mighty " , billy wilder for " sabrina "

released from prison several years later , joe returns to the ranch . the señora , his mother , persuades him to forget revenge and leave the country . joe decides to take her advice , but ben , fearing his revenge because he killed his father in the end , crosses his path and tries to kill him . the two half - brothers fight until two moons , the ranch foreman , shoots ben dead to save joe´s life . time passes , and joe and his new wife barbara ( jean peters ) visit matt ' s grave . there , joe sees the down - turned lance , the indian symbol for a blood feud , and breaks it in half , thus ending the feud . [ 5 ]

the first half of this book is almost as good as valnir ' s bane . what made me put down the series altogether though was the length of the climax . it ' s a 2 - part climax and , if you look at them both together , it ' s 70 pages long . 70 pages of blow - by - blow fighting , with tiny font . it gets boring after a while . another thing that annoyed me a little , not just with the broken lance but with the series as a whole , was that everything was so conveniently timed . they * small spoilers * find franka seconds before she ' s killed , they just happen to be under the bridge when the cannon is crossing over it , the sorceress just happens to be planning to attack the fort when the group gets there , shaedar just happens to be in the cave talking with the ratmen as reiner and giano were leaving , reiner just happens to report to gutzmann just as abel is ratting him out , it ' s all too convenient . i haven ' t yet read tainted blood , but i hope that ' s not the case in there as well . * spoilers over * the new blackhearts are rather forgettable . they show up when it ' s necessary to and have a very small amount of dialogue and three of them just seem like plot devices than actual characters . while the last 1 / 4 to half of the book isn ' t the best and is a little boring , the first half is nearly as good as valnir ' s bane . if you ' re going to buy this book , maybe just skim the final battle rather than read it word for word .

best historical album * * * winner : the cutting edge 1965–1966 : the bootleg series , vol . 12 ( collector & apos ; s edition ) — steve berkowitz and jeff rosen , compilation producers ; mark wilder , mastering engineer ( bob dylan ) music of morocco from the library of congress : recorded by paul bowles , 1959 — april g . ledbetter , steven lance ledbetter , bill nowlin and philip d . schuyler , compilation producers ; rick fisher and michael graves , mastering engineers ( various artists ) ork records : new york , new york — rob sevier and ken shipley , compilation producers ; jeff lipton and maria rice , mastering engineers ( various artists ) vladimir horowitz : the unreleased live recordings 1966–1983 — bernard horowitz , andreas k . meyer and robert russ , compilation producers ; andreas k . meyer and jeanne montalvo , mastering engineers ( vladimir horowitz ) waxing the gospel : mass evangelism and the phonograph , 1890–1900 — michael devecka , meagan hennessey and richard martin , compilation producers ; michael devecka , david giovannoni , michael khanchalian and richard martin , mastering engineers ( various artists )

actor : jose ferrer in " cyrano de bergerac " , louis calhern in " the magnificent yankee " , william holden in " sunset boulevard " , james stewart in " harvey " , spencer tracy in " father of the bride " actress : judy holliday in " born yesterday " , anne baxter in " all about eve " , bette davis in " all about eve " , eleanor parker in " caged " , gloria swanson in " sunset boulevard " supporting actor : george sanders in " all about eve " , jeff chandler in " broken arrow " , edmund gwenn in " mister 880 " , sam jaffe in " the asphalt jungle " , erich von stroheim in " sunset boulevard " supporting actress : josephine hull in " harvey " , hope emerson in " caged " , celeste holm in " all about eve " , nancy olson in " sunset boulevard " , thelma ritter in " all about eve " director : joseph l . mankiewicz for " all about eve " , george cukor for " born yesterday " , john huston for " the asphalt jungle " , carol reed for " the third man " , billy wilder for " sunset boulevard "

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cattle baron matt devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water , then divides his property among his sons . son joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison . matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when joe gets out he plans revenge .

not necssarily a revierw as such ! this is a superb film , with outstanding performances , i , m writing this in case anybody can help hoping that it , s read ! i , m . . .

one of the greatest adult western dramas of all time , with theastonishing spencer tracy just excellent , as usual , and effortless in his performance . you . . .

75 / 100 . exceptionally fine western , with spencer tracy giving a superb performance . very well produced , good cinematography . the acting by all is very . . .

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the saga of the devereaux rancher family , set in 1880 ' s arizona .

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a trio of american adventurers marooned in rural mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in apache territory .

a famous gunman becomes the marshal of warlock to end a gang ' s rampages , but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods .

wagon train survivors of an apache attack entrust the sheriff ' s prisoner , scout comanche todd , with their lives despite his wanted - for - murder status .

selfish chris teller pressures his older brother , a retired climber , to accompany him on a treacherous alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims .

a man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town ' s jail but they escape to mexico .

marshal jake wade aids outlaw clint hollister escape jail but clint wants to know where wade hid an old hold - up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang .

a pistol - packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town .

a new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher ' s wife , which leads to conflicts that could get him killed .

biopic loosely based on the last 18 years of jesse james ' life and focused on the relationship between brothers jesse and frank james .

a corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the comanches , but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences .

during the civil war , mexican cattleman alvarez kelly supplies the union with cattle until confederate colonel tom rossiter ' s hungry men force kelly to change his customers .

when barbara visits joe in prison , he angrily leaves her and when he grabs the iron bar cell door , it visibly shakes and wobbles . no iron bar door in prison is constructed shabbily enough to do that .

: the incident may be too trivial to recall . but isn ' t it true that you summarily hanged three of these men on the afternoon of june 4th ?

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this sturdy western is basically william shakespeare by way of joseph l . mankiewicz .

there may be debates about yordan ' s oscar - winning script , but dmytryk ' s direction of this compelling western is taut and the acting , especially by tracy and katy jurado ( oscar - nominated ) , is superb .

it lifts its plot line from joseph mankiewicz ' s powerful 1949 house of strangers .

o roteiro ( vencedor do oscar , acredite ou não ) é cheio de clichês ; e o final , esquemático . katy jurado foi indicada ao prêmio aparentemente por dizer ' my hosband ' o tempo todo .

a pretty good western . . . spencer tracy was never better . great job by all involved . . certainly richard widmark . please enjoy !

the feisty , domineering cattle baron matt devereaux ( tracy ) rules his vast empire with a ruthless hand . because matt ' s greatest love id for his indian wife , princess ( jurado ) and their son joe , matt ' s three sons from a previous marriage deeply resent them . after joe agrees to go to jail for a crime his father commits , he returns three years later to a different world - his father has died and his vengeful brothers control the land .

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in the second book of the black hearts series , reiner and his band of reprobates are given a new mission . all communications with a vital imperial border fort has been lost , and they are sent to find out what ' s going on - has the commander gone rogue , or are more sinister forces at work ?

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nathan long has worked as a screenwriter for fifteen years , during which time he has had three movies made and a handful of live - action and animated tv episodes produced . he has also written several award - winning short stories . he lives in hollywood .

as a long - time reader of nathan long ' s work ( no pun intended , but it ' s rather nice , no ? ) and a noisy fan his first blackhearts novel , valnir ' s bane , i thought i knew what to expect from this book . an anti - hero who schemes and winces and reluctantly - - sometimes accidentally - - makes smart choices . a misfit or two so maladroit and creepy that i want them to die . at least one horrible quandary that makes me think uncomfortable thoughts . and huge , gory battle scenes involving every bashing tool but the kitchen sink ( oh , wait , there ' s a skaven just getting bashed over the head with a kitchen sink ) . did i get what i expected ? absolutely ! in overflowing pagefuls . pages full ? anyway , in heaps and heaps . i expected to like most of the characters . what i did not expect was to admire any of them . what i did not expect was a hero . and long , damn his eyes , wrote a hero into this book . a traditionally tragic hero , to boot . so right in the middle of all my glee at the gore , i was also smearing away tears at moments of pathos . nathan long , i hate you . do it again .

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matt devereaux is the patriarch of the devereaux family . he had three sons , ben , mike and denny , with his first wife and a fourth son - joe - with her second wife , the american indian born katy jurado . averse to any changes in the way he heads his ranch , matt doesn ' t want his son ben to open an office in town in order to be in phase with the economic realities of the moment . matt doesn ' t believe his sons are mature enough and ready to take his place although he clearly prefers joe to his brothers .

now , when one of his neighbours produces manufacturing wastes in the river that kill forty of his cows , matt and his sons settle " in the good old way " the matter by destroying the property of the neighbour who , unfortunately , goes straight to the local court of law . times have changed and matt is about to go to prison for some time and pay $ 80 , 000 to the plaintiff . convinced that his father won ' t be able to stand the prison , joe takes the full responsibility of the act and is arrested .

ben and his brothers then refuse to sign the agreement accepted by their father and matt , in a climactic scene , whips ben . joe is sentenced to three years of prison , instead of two months , and matt undergoes a heart attack . during the three following years , ben will more and more stand up to his weakened father and even propose to sell some of the family land to the oil companies .

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matt devereaux ( spencer tracy ) owns a huge cattle ranch in texas . he went west with his wife and 3 sons , and when she died remarried an indian and has one younger son . matt is a mean tyrant , who treats his sons poorly and works them hard . the older 3 sons hate matt , the indian wife and their youngest brother . only youngest son joe ( robert wagner ) loves matt .

matt ' s cattle are dying because the river is being poisoned by waste from a copper mine upstream . matt and the boys go upstream and destroy the copper mine . the mining company goes to court . joe takes the blame and goes to prison for 3 years , to save matt from prison . while joe is in jail , the older brothers wrest control of the ranch from matt . they drive matt to his death by selling off land that he struggled so hard to acquire . they refuse a deal that would have let joe out of prison early . joe ' s mother is sent back to live with her tribe .

when joe gets out of prison , his brothers offer him a large amount of money to leave texas and never return . he refuses and wants revenge for his parents . joe goes back to the abandoned house they grew up in . one of the indian ranch workers sees joe , and brings his mother back to see him . . she convinces him revenge is bad , and that he should go with his ladyfriend to start a new life free of hatred . he agrees , but when he is riding back to town oldest brother ben ( richard widmark ) pops up behind him with a shotgun . joe tells ben he has sworn off revenge and is leaving . ben does not believe him , and ben says that he will never feel safe while joe is alive . ben takes joe out to a remote canyon , where ben plans to kill him .

in a switchback on the trail , joe gets the jump on ben and knocks him down . joe is escaping with ben shooting at him . the old indian ranch hand had been following and shoots ben .

if for no other reason , this 1950s western is worth seeing for spencer tracy’s performance . he plays an aging arizona cattleman who built an empire , using a six - gun and his own style of justice to preserve it . now those days are over .

not only do folks prefer due process in settling disputes , but three of his four grown sons are giving him troubles . they resent the old man’s rough fathering , and the oldest ( richard widmark ) has ideas about modernizing the family’s operation . they also hate him for the affection he gives to his youngest son , joe ( robert wagner ) .

a twist in the plot is that joe is a half - breed . the boys’ father married the daughter of an indian chief after the death of his first wife . this may have been common in the time of the frontier , but not anymore . joe’s mixed parentage also makes him unacceptable marriage material by the father of the girl he’s fallen for ( jean peters ) .

the film is about the fall of a patriarch . his fortunes turn after some of his old - style intimidation of those who cross him get him dragged into court . a copper mining outfit sues him for damages over a disagreement about use of water rights . the older sons reject the settlement deal and joe ends up spending three years in prison .

struck down by a stroke , the old man spends his last days in the care of his wife ( katy jurado ) , while the older sons do what they want with the ranch . out of prison , joe has scores to settle with his three brothers . their differences are finally resolved with the assistance of an indian employee of the ranch .

comes at a time when the hollywood stereotype of the bloodthirsty savage indian was changing . the film makes a point of dignifying them , though only as pacified members of a subdued race . prejudice against them and objecting to intermarriage are regarded by the film as narrow - minded , if not racist .

like the lone ranger ' s tonto , however , their function is to be faithful retainers . they come to the aid of spencer when he ' s outnumbered by the angry copper mine workers . they show up at his funeral to play their drums in respect for the departed . the appearance of a wolf at points in the film suggests the continuing of animist culture and traditions somewhere off camera . but for hollywood , it’s indian lite .

robert wagner is a bland presence in the film . he seems to remember his lines but delivers them with a flatness that always makes me wonder about his appeal . spencer tracy , on the other hand , fully inhabits his role . he commands every scene he is in , whether scolding the plaintiff’s attorney from the witness stand or trying to dissuade his oldest son from selling off part of the ranch .

this latter scene with widmark is played out in a single five - minute take , each man on one side of the cinemascope frame . spencer is sitting , recuperating from a stroke ; widmark stands , declining to take a seat and fiddling with a leather glove . the pacing , performances , and delivery are a simple yet masterful portrayal of the shifting dynamic between the two characters .

in secondary roles are hugh o’brian and earl holliman as the two other brothers . o’brian , who had not yet gained fame as tv’s bat masterson , seems always to fade into the background , probably for that reason . the talent least appreciated in the film is mexican actress katy jurado , playing a native american . the script provides her with few lines , and she’s rarely given more to do than offer a worried look when there’s something to be worried about .

credit is due to the stuntmen for some breathtaking stunt work near the end of the film as one character pursues another over a rocky terrain . both take long dives into a stagnant pool of water that seems surely to harbor brain - dashing boulders under the surface . also , the costumers get a nod from me for tracy ' s lbj - style stetson . it ' s perfect for him .

according to imdb . com , director edward dmytryk had an abusive father and left home at an early age . you wonder how much of this finds its way into the complexity of spencer’s character . the man is likable but capable of violent outrages against his older sons . that he has alienated them is his own fault , and their grievances are clearly justified .

a member of the communist party briefly during wwii , dmytryk ended up doing time for refusing to comply with the huac hearings . later , agreeing to name names , he resumed what became a long directing career in hollywood , though like elia kazan , he lost friends as a result of the whole blacklisting ordeal .

) . ironically , his credits show him to be a “front” for a blacklisted screenwriter during the 1950s .

i thought wagner was miscast in this , like you i also thought he lacked any ability ? however , widmark and the great spencer tracy ! " keep the film alive . not one of the best films .

i saw this many many years ago but truth be told , it was never one of my favorites . like you , i thought robert wagner was lost in the role . ' bland ' is a good word to describe wagner ' s early career . he had zero charisma . but as he got older , he seemed to acquire charisma . not everyone of these early mr . blandings ever did . richard widmark was not the best actor in the world , certainly , but he was born with charisma and that carried him through . that and the gorgeous blond hair , of course . i ' m fond of actors with blond hair . : ) hugh o ' brian did achieve charismatic status as wyatt earp - no question . i think it was the profile . : ) i always liked katy jurado , i wish she ' d been given more to do in her long career . she always played similar roles . i remember her in a very similar role in one eyed jacks where she played karl malden ' s long suffering wife . i enjoyed reading your post very much . if i ' d been in the audience when elia kazan showed up at the oscars i ' d have booed too .

according to my notes in brian garfield ' s western films , i first saw this as a kid in 1954 , then again in 1988 , and finally a few months ago . not a big favorite but i enjoyed it . garfield mentions this is a remake of house of strangers starring edward g . robinson as the father , and then remade again as a circus movie , the big show .

robert wagner made one great film . a kiss before dying . he ruined a lot of other ones . but anything with spencer tracy is worth a look .

robert wagner didn ' t seem lost in the role to me . i don ' t know what many of you were expecting . theatrics ?

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a patriarchal rancher ' s empire is threatened by conflict within his family . on the day of his release from prison , the son of a cattle baron swears vengeance on his three half - brothers responsible for dispossessing him of his inheritance and driving his father to a fatal stroke . the ensuing story unfolds in flashback , tracing the sibling rivalries that led to the man ' s imprisonment .

in this splendid 20th century - fox cinemascope western , a magnificently grizzled spencer tracy stars in the role he was born to play - king lear . even though the daughters have become sons , this is the ( uncredited ) westernisation of shakespeare ' s tragedy about the royal patriarch and his disparate family . it ' s also a re - make of house of strangers , the joseph l mankiewicz crime drama that was also re - made in the big - top setting of the big show . still , despite the claims for akira kurosawa ' s ran , this is the definitive screen version of the bard ' s celebrated work , and the western setting provides a dimension of grandeur : it ' s no accident , surely , that this was one of the first subjects used to show off the then new cinemascope process .

a cattle baron ' s son seeks revenge on his three wayward stepbrothers for driving their father to an early grave and then seizing control of the family business he worked tirelessly to build up . epic western loosely based on shakespeare ' s king lear , starring spencer tracy , robert wagner , richard widmark and earl holliman .

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spencer tracy stars in this fine western of a tough cattle baron who is not above taking the law into his own hands to deal with rustlers and trespassers . the film also dwells on the internal strife within the family as three of the rancher ' s adult sons quarrel over the old man ' s mistreatment of them and resent his marriage to an indian woman . the story is told in flashback and begins with the release from prison of robert wagner , tracy ' s son from the union with his younger wife . the film is a quest for revenge by wagner who blames his half brothers for tracy ' s death while he was behind bars , with richard widmark being the leader and instigator against wagner . jean peters appears as wagner ' s love interest and katy jurado is tracy ' s comanche princess . tracy ' s destruction of mining property gets him into big trouble and it is wagner who takes the blame for tracy and goes to prison instead of his father , which is the final break between the four brothers . the film was shot in cinemascope and captures the beautiful expanses of the old west .

when this film came out , the main attraction was that it was in cinemascope and i cannot remember where this system was better used . this is a great film , one of the best westerns ever made . it starts with a wolf running in the giant landscape and finishes with a wolf howling and kathy jurado smiling because she knows what it means . robert wagner is called joseph , and has a lot in common with joseph in the bible , because of the way he is treated by his brothers from a different mother , and specially on the issue of forgiveness , which in this case will be represented by whether he will seek revenge or not . spencer tracy is the patriarch , he also has in common with the biblical jacob the fact that he worked so many years . richard widmark is the son who cannot forgive tracy for having married jurado , and for having treated him so hard . when he tries to explain to tracy why he hates him , tracy gives a great answer telling him that the gates were always open , he could have left like tracy did in his youth , and the fact that he did not leave reveals widmark ' s blind ambition . tracy and sons fight the people on a copper plant which is polluting the river in a scene very reminiscent of the family going against the railroad in " duel in the sun " . make sure to see this film on widescreen .

this was a little bit different of a western in that a significant segment of the film deals with a trial . spencer tracy is excellent as always , this time playing a rough patriarch , head of the " devereaux " family . in fact , he ' s the main attraction of the movie despite a bunch of well - known actors and actresses in here . of the rest of that crew - robert wagner , jean peters , richard widmark , katy jurado , hugh o ' brien , earl holliman , eduard frans and e . g . marshall - only widmark plays a memorable character . if the story was a memorable as the cast this would have been super . as it was , it was pretty forgettable , and i am a big fan of westerns . irs disappointing .

superb cast with actors of stature in minor roles . probably the most notable performance of spencer tracy ' s career . great plot seething with bitterness . the emotional climax is reached when spencer tracy finds himself being stabbed in the back by his friends . " i put you in that governor ' s chair and i can pull it out from under you , " he rages . this is followed by a pathetic scene where he rides out to seek revenge only to collapse with a heart attack .

this movie has a great cast with spencer tracy as the father and owner of a large ranch and and his sons played by robert wagner , richard widmark , and hugh o ' brian as his sons . tracy has been in charge a long time and has a lot of power that got e . g . marshall elected governor . but everything starts going downhill when two of his sons are caught stealing cattle and tracy kicks them out . the sons don ' t think they are being paid enough and richard widmark is the first one to turn on his father when he goes on trial for destroying a rival ' s property . robert wagner is the only one to stand up for his father and he winds up going to jail . katy jurado plays tracy ' s wife and also was in high noon and one - eyed jacks .

epic family drama about pride , racism , injustice and the problem of being right without getting it .

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