Friday, 7 December 2012

Rocky subject matter


Rocky Mountain (1950)

Directed by William Keighley this western stars Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore and Scott Forbes. During the US Civil War a group of Confederates in Union territory are trapped by Native Americans.

There is not much unique about the plot of this film which is disappointing as it comes from a story by Alan Le May who also penned the novel behind The Searchers (1954). In general the film is disappointing because it never really tackles the subject of what the South was fighting for, providing only a sanitized and romanticised view. The performances and execution of the film are not bad but there was not much to work with to begin with.

2/5  

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