Angel and the Badman (1947)
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell
Synopsis:
An outlaw is nursed back to health by a Quaker girl, and must reassess his way of living if he is to follow his heart.
Review:
He's not really 'bad', of course, but the unusual title heralds a most humorous and delightful Western, with few clichés, a fresh heroine, the Duke at his most relaxed and unembittered, and a fast-moving scenario which nonetheless finds time to say a few things about how a man should live. There is even the great Harry Carey, after whom Wayne modelled that famous hand-on-arm pose at the end of The Searchers, and a jaw-dropping stunt involving a wagon going over a precipice into a river.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell
Synopsis:
An outlaw is nursed back to health by a Quaker girl, and must reassess his way of living if he is to follow his heart.
Review:
He's not really 'bad', of course, but the unusual title heralds a most humorous and delightful Western, with few clichés, a fresh heroine, the Duke at his most relaxed and unembittered, and a fast-moving scenario which nonetheless finds time to say a few things about how a man should live. There is even the great Harry Carey, after whom Wayne modelled that famous hand-on-arm pose at the end of The Searchers, and a jaw-dropping stunt involving a wagon going over a precipice into a river.
Country: US
Technical: bw 100m
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell
Synopsis:
An outlaw is nursed back to health by a Quaker girl, and must reassess his way of living if he is to follow his heart.
Review:
He's not really 'bad', of course, but the unusual title heralds a most humorous and delightful Western, with few clichés, a fresh heroine, the Duke at his most relaxed and unembittered, and a fast-moving scenario which nonetheless finds time to say a few things about how a man should live. There is even the great Harry Carey, after whom Wayne modelled that famous hand-on-arm pose at the end of The Searchers, and a jaw-dropping stunt involving a wagon going over a precipice into a river.