Word: badman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog...
...pictures made from it for some time you will be surprised to find that The Virginian would be a typical western except that it is less energetic and far better bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement of the earnest hero, the fragile heroine, the cattle-rustling, halfbreed badman. Around these puppets the beautiful photography is like a shell on whose glazed surface you can see reflected the arch of a great horizon and which, pressed to your ear, records the rustle of the air's phantom oceans over the prairie land, sounds of rivers, birds, hoofs. Best...