"Kirby has such a wealth of manners and such a poverty of ethics." "I grow repetitious in my spinsterhood." Not much attention is paid to the other elements of the film. When someone accounts for an incident, the listener comments, not "That's reasonable" or "That's possible," but "That's plausible." (Twice.) "Shall" is sometimes substituted for "will," willy nilly, so to speak. Here, Grant is given to more flowery dialog. Is it good or bad that the bridge was destroyed? It's treated as good. I don't know why - just before the climactic battle - several stalled cars blow up. When he spoke, it was like one of the faces on Mount Rushmore opening its mouth to utter some rocky platitude.Īnd either the writing or the editing leaves some events without explanation. He later went on to write for John Wayne's later Westerns because, as the Duke put it, "He knows how to write for me." The result was a string of turkeys, unfortunately, and the image of the unyielding Wayne that we've all come to love. There tends to be a patriarchal leader and the others were followers, especially the women. My Dx? Thyrotoxic storm, secondary to an acute infraction of the myoculinary. Adele Mara is the girl the two principals fight over. Chill Wills is the earthy comic sidekick. Reviewed by rmax304823 6 / 10 "Progress Can't Be Stopped."Ī rambunctious Western about Forrest Tucker pitting his Rock Island Line against the retrograde stagecoach or steamboat line run by Bruce Cabot, the heavy, who doesn't want the railroad cutting into his profits.
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