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H.Hawk director.
Gary Cooper the star and Brennan as side actor.It start real slow with Gary doing his best within his very limited range.
Brennan excellent as ever.
With time the picture improve in pace and in action.
The message is one of freedom and as this story is a true one it seems to stick pretty closely to the reality of what really did happen.All in all a solid picture, a propaganda ( 1941 ) who is not too vulgare.
Short a classic.
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"The Fountainhead," too.
It also starred perhaps the most underrated of our female actresses, Patricia Neal.
THAT is one movie that SHOULD be remade...IMO.
taciturn, "aw shucks" characters truly was acting: he was known as a good raconteur and one of Hollywoods best dressers and womanizers, quite the equal of his competitors in those fields, Errol Flynn and Cary Grant.
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Gunga Din," and "High Noon" underscore his successes in playing quite different characters.
What actor today could bring to such vivid life the iconic bravery of the sheriff in "High Noon?"
Cooper came to this versatility naturally: his father owned and worked a six-hundred acre ranch in Montana and Gary also spent many years, as a boy, at school in England.
of that movie ALL wrong...and it really should be remade today....Cooper had success as an actor... High Noon being a good example...but he like Bogart was a personality...NOT an an actor in the vein of a Tracy or Olivier....
High Noon is his best. No doubt. But if you look at his face you will see his mimic, and that is VERY limited.
BTW I love him and have even read an autobiography of his life.Now as far as Gunga Din...It was Cary Grant...
High Noon is his best. No doubt. But if you look at his face you will see his mimic, and that is VERY limited.
BTW I love him and have even read an autobiography of his life.
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