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Film · United Artists · 1939

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Stagecoach

58Watch it awake.

The man the town would trust is the thief, and the chase is not the lesson.

The review

I kept a passenger list, which is the only honest way through this coach. Strangers cross Apache country: a woman pushed out of town, a drunk doctor, a whiskey salesman, a pregnant army wife, a banker, an outlaw. John Wayne. The banker is the respectable thief. That fact hit harder than the chase, and I am not going to linger on the chase.

A teen can watch it. I would not start a small child on it. The pregnant wife is a life in the seat, not a decoration on the trip. Drink has a place on the coach. The town's good name is the lie with the wallet. If you only remember the outlaw, you remembered the poster and missed the passenger who mattered.

Journal

Keep Stagecoach in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

Shane

69 instead of 58

Shane is still a western film, and it scores 69 instead of 58. What you gain is temperance: Violence is a last tool and still a stain.

The eight

6
Industry
A doctor, a salesman, and a banker are aboard, and the banker is crooked.
6
Household
A pregnant army wife rides along, and a woman has been pushed out of town.
4
Piety
The town pushed a woman out, and no conscience there is shown stopping it.
7
Courage
They cross Apache country together, a trip they might not finish.
7
Republic
A town throws a woman out, and the respectable banker is the thief.
3
Temperance
A drunk doctor and a whiskey salesman mean the bottle has a seat.
8
Truth
The banker is the respectable thief, so the town's good name is the lie.
5
Stewardship
A pregnant wife is what the coach carries toward whatever town is next.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

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12 Angry Men

75 instead of 58

12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 58. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the duty to be inconvenient.