Good Ol' Doc McCord's message of owning up to responsibility apparently also means that women should shut up and produce sons!Anthony Perkins stars as a timid young man who clings to his sheriff's badge and Henry Fonda appears as his balls. Mentor? Sure, OK, Henry Fonda is a crusty old bounty hunter who takes a liking to Perkins and acts as his mentor. Kind of formulaic and predictable; Fonda's gunslinger-in-the-shadows character reminded me a bit of Alan Ladd's Shane, which came four years before this. In both movies, I figured it could be possible that both Ladd's Shane and Fonda's Morg could be interpreted - even at a bit of a stretch - as figures of the imagination. Passable Saturday afternoon western. Perkins is a kind of lily-livered sheriff; if I lived in this town I would be on the next wagon out just to be on the safe side. This movie has a lingering odor of misogyny wafting through it, emanating from the new if dull and moralizing world of lawfulness.
No comments:
Post a Comment