Monday, October 22, 2007

Sergeant Rutledge - John Ford (1960)

Woody Strode finally gets his day.

I certainly haven't seen all of John Ford's later films, but just how many of them use interracial rape as a plot pivot? Weird...

Willis Bouchey offers mucho inappropriate comic relief as the president of the court-martial. Totally inappropriate for the film, but I was rolling on the floor a couple of times.

In an heroic shot of Strode near the end of the film I swear I could see the studio lighting rigs through the fog above Strode, even on my tiny TV. Seemed like a major gaffer gaffe.

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