TRIBUTE TO A BADMAN
(M.G.M.) A Cert. IKE The _ Searchers, this James Cagney Western celebrates violence and vendetta; though a little more bluntly-as the title suggests. On the credit side the film offers sweeping vistas of mountain and prairie, forest and savannah land, which are just as picturesque as, and a good deal less stereotyped than the Arizona stamping-ground of John Ford. Cagney’s range is given over to horses instead of beef-cattle, and there are times when the wide screen is full of the grace of mares and foals frolicking in upland pastures. The film also introduces Irene Papas, as a sloeeyed cheroot-smoking lass who stays at the ranch-house and enjoys some un-) specified symbiotic relationship with its owner. Miss Papas, too, is a graceful filly and quite easy to look at, but it is Mr Cagney who occupies most of the foreground-he’s almost broader than he’s tall, a proper CinemaScope type, you might say. As in The Searchers, the common decencies of civilised man prevail in the end, but rather more time and attention is given to the questionable methods used by the old ranch boss (a self-confessed dirty fighter, with an urge to hang rustlers) to protect his own property, equine and otherwise.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 15
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205TRIBUTE TO A BADMAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 15
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