@deanduncan63Saw Budd Boetticher’s gentle, courtly #ComancheStation. Hail B Movies! A ton of a lot accomplished in a mere 74 minutes!
#ComancheStation. I love how horse-loving director BB devotes so much time to near gratuitous, utterly elegant equestrian display …
… and to all these tiny, disproportionately portentous little conversations. So indirect, so quiet & modest …
… accumulating in the end into such majesty.
#ComancheStation is the last of 6 Boetticher/Scott/Kennedy/Brown Westerns made between 1956-1960. They’re all provocative …
… even superlative in the way they problematize the facile antagonisms of standard melodrama, in Westerns, or elsewhere, or anywhere …
… Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Pernell Roberts are bad guys, alright, but w’ a psychological depth, a moral heft & implication …
… that is practically Shakespearean. Let me revise that. It’s downright Biblical! The Claude Akins character here in #ComancheStation …
… may be the profoundest of the lot.
#ComancheStation is a superb dissertation on the gaps between appearance & reality, between our perceptions of virtue …
… and virtue itself, on the power of anger, & its sweet obliteration by mercy & forgiveness. We mostly watch movies for entertainment but …
… once in a while … This film, these films, might actually make you a better person.
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