Film · Paramount · 1914
Pass it on
The Bargain
43Leave it.
Hart robs a stage, then the title asks whether a man like that can stop.
Take controlThis scores 43. The Bargain cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Hart's first feature is an outlaw picture. A bandit robs a stage and then has to live inside a town that wants him. William S. Hart. The theft is the start. The bargain of the title is whether a man can stop. Fine for the house. I wouldn't grin at the robbery and call the rest automatic.
People already trusted Hart's face in a western. Trust isn't a pardon. He has to stay where the town wants the man who took the stage. Whether he stops is what the title leaves open. If the bargain is only a word, you are left with the theft. Check that before anyone says he reformed.
Journal
Keep The Bargain in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household 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
How the West Was Won
55 instead of 43
How the West Was Won is still a western film, and it scores 55 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A family is the thread, marriages and burials, not a lone gun as the hero.
The eight
- 4Industry
A stage robbery is the start; living in town is the work not yet done.
- 2Household
No marriage or child is named; the town is the company he has.
- 5Piety
The title's bargain is whether a bandit can make himself stop.
- 6Courage
He has to live in the town that wants the man who robbed the stage.
- 5Republic
After the theft he owes the town that already wants him.
- 5Temperance
Stopping is the bargain, and the robbery shows the want still loose.
- 4Truth
The theft is plain; whether he stops is still only a question.
- 3Stewardship
A robbed stage is what he leaves, and the town has to live with it.
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