The world of cinema has a habit of throwing some curveballs occasionally, when somewhere in a dusty box, a long-lost masterpiece is discovered. For fans of the maestro of the Western, John Ford, such a moment has occurred as a nearly complete print of the legendary directors 1918 movie The Scarlet Drop was discovered in a warehouse in Santiago, Chile just a day before the building was due to be demolished. As incredible as it is to believe, this is the first time that the movie has been discovered in its almost complete form, as only 30 minutes were previously thought to exist.
The Scarlet Drop stars Harry Carey as "Kaintuk" Harry Ridge, a man whose rejection from the Union militia during the American Civil War forces him into becoming a bandit. As with many Westerns that would follow across the decades, the film incorporates the now expected theme of redemption, and...
The Scarlet Drop stars Harry Carey as "Kaintuk" Harry Ridge, a man whose rejection from the Union militia during the American Civil War forces him into becoming a bandit. As with many Westerns that would follow across the decades, the film incorporates the now expected theme of redemption, and...
- 11/27/2024
- by Anthony Lund
- MovieWeb
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By John M. Whalen
Some movie directors achieve greatness by steadily working at their craft over a lifetime, building their reputation movie by movie, until they develop a following, creating a catalogue of films that they become known for. It’s a steady process of craftsmanship. And then there are some few directors who seem to come out of the egg fully hatched, so to speak. Their particular vision, their attraction to certain themes, their own peculiar style is evident even from their earliest work. Orson Welles was one such film maker. So were Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. If you watch the episodes of the half-hour “Gunsmoke” TV series that Peckinpah wrote in the 1950’s, or The Westerner TV series in 1960, you will be surprised to see how many of the themes and obsessions that Peckinpah put into films like “The Wild Bunch...
By John M. Whalen
Some movie directors achieve greatness by steadily working at their craft over a lifetime, building their reputation movie by movie, until they develop a following, creating a catalogue of films that they become known for. It’s a steady process of craftsmanship. And then there are some few directors who seem to come out of the egg fully hatched, so to speak. Their particular vision, their attraction to certain themes, their own peculiar style is evident even from their earliest work. Orson Welles was one such film maker. So were Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. If you watch the episodes of the half-hour “Gunsmoke” TV series that Peckinpah wrote in the 1950’s, or The Westerner TV series in 1960, you will be surprised to see how many of the themes and obsessions that Peckinpah put into films like “The Wild Bunch...
- 8/12/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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