• It’s yet another solid film from Wyler
  • Doesn’t use Gregg Toland as much as some of the better works from these collaborators but there are some great b/w landscapes here
  • It’s an Oscar win for Walter Brennan. He’s deserving here- a large figure playing a large figure in Judge Roy Bean. He’s intoxicating, folksy, smart, edgy and dark.
  • Brennan just built for a western—he really plays the same character as he does in My Darling Clementine here
  • Young Dana Andrews pops up for a minute
  • Dimitri Tiomkin score
  • Chill Wills is great as well
  • Great decor detail in the interior of the homesteader’s house
  • Beautifully photographed montage of the prairie
  • It’s rustling vs. ranchers/settlers again. The settling down is a metaphor for Cooper’s romance
  • Pretty brutal scene of the cowboys terrorizing the settlers—a great high angle shot of the destruction
  • Recommend