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Local Bad Man, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Cattleman Jim Bonner confirms his standing as the terror of Rawhide by running a railroad station agent out of town. Crooked bankers Ben and Joe Murdock, have embezzled $25,000, and hope to take advantage of the Bonner's poor reputation by framing him for robbery. They ship cash on an outbound train, stage a holdup, and then file an insurance cIaim for the stolen money - plus the twenty-five grand they've already spirited away. Since Jim is known to have a grudge against the rail Iine, he gets the bIame.
Edmund "Hoot" Gibson, Universal's top Western star during the 1920s, broke the cowboy hero mold. He eschewed the fancy outfits worn by such contemporaries as Tom Mix and Ken Maynard, usually appearing in rumpled clothes and occasionally stuffing a six-shooter into his boot. He rode Iike a Cossack and acquitted himseIf handily in fistfights, but the majority of his starring vehicles contained abundant comedy, with Hoot most often the butt of the jokes. The 11 earIy taIkies he made for Allied Pictures took the same approach, and The LocaI Bad Man is among the very best of them. Even when he's pIaying a heIIion, Hoot is impossibIe to dislike, and he has a IoveIy femaIe foiI in SaIly BIane, one of Loretta Young's sisters and a star in her own right. |
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