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Film · Selznick · 1946

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Duel in the Sun

29Leave it.

Adult heat that ends in a shootout, and it is not a film for the house.

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The review

Selznick sold it as heat, and on one rental list it was the largest film of 1946. A half-Indian woman is taken into a Texas house. Two brothers want her. One is the father's decent son. The other is not. Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck. I'm not going to describe the sex. The advertising already sold lust, which is the heat they wanted.

The finish is a shootout, not a household. Know that before the night gets long. It is adult, and it is not a family film. If the decent brother was meant as a brake, the ending doesn't give decency the house. Put it on only when the adults already know they bought a western sold as appetite. Don't pass it to a child because the poster has horses.

Journal

Keep Duel in the Sun in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Django Unchained

43 instead of 29

Django Unchained is still a western film, and it scores 43 instead of 29. What you gain is household: He goes back for his wife.

The eight

3
Industry
The Texas house is where they want her, not a job anyone is doing.
3
Household
She enters a house, and the finish is a shootout, not a home.
3
Piety
One brother is the decent son, and decency does not get the ending.
5
Courage
The finish is a shootout, so the people in the heat can lose a life.
2
Republic
Two brothers and a woman, and no town or law they answer to.
1
Temperance
The ads sold lust, and the picture is built to keep that want going.
4
Truth
The decent brother and the other are not the same, and it says so.
2
Stewardship
A shootout is the ending, so no household is left standing.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

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The review

It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.