John Ford - 1950
There's something here almost on the line taken by Godard's 'Detective'; a collection of motifs, wonderfully, beautifully put together, creating almost a genre-film by association than anything aparticularly plot-based.
This is in many ways a mood-piece, with a focus on the everyday life of the troupe, lots of comedy messing around, There are lines that, taken in the usually jingoistic films of the genre, come across as quite stunningly anti-violence, condemning it. Yet this is one of the films where Ford seems to think it's fine (Wayne never does; he makes it look damn difficult) to shoot a bunch of Indians.
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