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Man of the West
Western
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value psychologically charged westerns about confronting a violent past, with stark landscapes and morally uneasy heroism.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, contemplative
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- redemption, moral identity, violence, civilization, corrupted loyalty
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century frontier, isolated plains, railroad stops and outlaw hideouts
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