He’d go on to make another 20 features (he directed about 120 overall) but as of right now this is the latest dated archiveable film for Raul Walsh
10 years after he’d head to the desert for Bogart’s breakout role in High Sierra Walsh is back in the desert – Sierra here and the Mojave shot on location
88 minutes, tight film with simple premise- black and white
Walter Brennan in support—he’s such a strong actor, this is a complex character here- he’s be the likeable Brennan from Rio Bravo one minute and then flips a switch to his darker My Darling Clementine role in a blink
Kirk Douglas plays the marshal in a western, he has a checkered past, forced with tough moral choices- this could be a Boetticher film with Randolph Scott or a Anthony Mann film with Jimmy Stewart
Douglas and Walter Brennan dueling back and forth here- the film isn’t peppered with these shots but a very nice one here
In great form- Douglas loses his temper (he’s just about as good as any actor in cinema history at this) at the 33 minute mark
Walsh is a fantastic director of action- kinetic chase scenes and a strong stalking scene through the desert rocks at the 40 minute mark
[…] Along the Great Divide – Walsh […]