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Gary Cooper Western ‘The Hanging Tree’ Makes Shadow and Light a Shifting Moral Statement
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Gary Cooper Western ‘The Hanging Tree’ Makes Shadow and Light a Shifting Moral Statement

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 / 5 February 2018

Exteriors and interiors in The Hanging Tree are staged with compositions that layer different elements across their own planes of foreground and background, while interiors parcel dark and light according to the nature of the characters.

The Peace Mission of ‘Drum Beat’ Involves a Lot of Killing
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The Peace Mission of ‘Drum Beat’ Involves a Lot of Killing

By
 / 9 February 2015
This Delmer Daves-helmed Western is a middling picture with a relatively progressive veneer for its time.
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Delmer Daves’ ‘The Red House’ Is Ghost Noir

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 / 20 April 2012
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3:10 to Yuma

By
 / 27 August 2007
Potboiler Pulp ‘A Summer Place’ Percolates with Spicy Sentimentality
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Potboiler Pulp ‘A Summer Place’ Percolates with Spicy Sentimentality

By
 / 28 April 2007

Drama-romance ‘A Summer Place’ is about the unbridled passions of ardent lovers separated and how they will stoop to all manner of anger-based schmaltz to realize their throbbing biological urges.