Man in the Saddle (1951)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 87m
Director: André De Toth
Cast: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox
Synopsis:
A rancher loses his girl to the local cattle baron, who rightly suspects that her heart is not in it, and hires a gun to rid himself of his rival while enlarging his dominion.
Review:
Broadly routine Columbia western with comic asides, though as a meditation on overweening capitalism it is not without its points of interest: Knox is the coolest embodiment of uncompromising villainy you ever saw, but Leslie's character is even more intriguing, the white trash made good who banishes her own father and sacrifices her love to ambition. Action highlights are crisply and energetically staged - a cattle stampede, stakeout and brawl in a collapsing cabin - and Drew dons the red lipstick as the rebound love prize.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 87m
Director: André De Toth
Cast: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox
Synopsis:
A rancher loses his girl to the local cattle baron, who rightly suspects that her heart is not in it, and hires a gun to rid himself of his rival while enlarging his dominion.
Review:
Broadly routine Columbia western with comic asides, though as a meditation on overweening capitalism it is not without its points of interest: Knox is the coolest embodiment of uncompromising villainy you ever saw, but Leslie's character is even more intriguing, the white trash made good who banishes her own father and sacrifices her love to ambition. Action highlights are crisply and energetically staged - a cattle stampede, stakeout and brawl in a collapsing cabin - and Drew dons the red lipstick as the rebound love prize.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 87m
Director: André De Toth
Cast: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox
Synopsis:
A rancher loses his girl to the local cattle baron, who rightly suspects that her heart is not in it, and hires a gun to rid himself of his rival while enlarging his dominion.
Review:
Broadly routine Columbia western with comic asides, though as a meditation on overweening capitalism it is not without its points of interest: Knox is the coolest embodiment of uncompromising villainy you ever saw, but Leslie's character is even more intriguing, the white trash made good who banishes her own father and sacrifices her love to ambition. Action highlights are crisply and energetically staged - a cattle stampede, stakeout and brawl in a collapsing cabin - and Drew dons the red lipstick as the rebound love prize.