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Written by James M. Tate / 11/07/2019 / No comments / action , adventure , classic , fantasy , helen mack , merian cooper , nigel bruce , randolph scott , thirties

HELEN MACK BACK WITH SON OF KONG'S MERIAN COOPER FOR 'SHE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nigel Bruce, Randolph Scott & Helen Mack in SHE Year: 1935</u></td></tr>
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H. Rider Haggard's immortal book SHE was produced by RKO under the leadership of KING KONG creator Meriam Cooper and writer/adapter Ruth Rose, and the similarities go beyond the exact same massive wall and an even more immense cliff-side: It's basically an adventure story that, unlike the classic gorilla flick, lacks smaller adventures along the way...<br>
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Known simply as SHE and played by Helen Gahagan, SHE isn't quite as fulfilling. Imagine if in KONG, instead of battling various prehistoric monsters leading up to the title character, the only adversaries were those natives, and that's what happens here. Actually, there is one creature they run into along the way: an immense sabertooth tiger, which would have been a terrific and timeless stop-motion visual...<br>

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HELEN MACK BACK WITH SON OF KONG'S MERIAN COOPER FOR 'SHE'

Nigel Bruce, Randolph Scott & Helen Mack in SHE Year: 1935 H. Rider Haggard's immortal book SHE was produced by RKO under the le...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/10/2018 / No comments / ann richards , forties , gabby hayes , lawrence tierney , randolph scott , steve brodie , warner archives , western

RANDOLPH SCOTT & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'BADMAN'S TERRITORY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence Tierney gets scant screen-time, but looks cool YEAR: 1946</u></td></tr>
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George "Gabby" Hayes is a Cinematic National Treasure; it's too bad his obnoxious, notice-me, gummy-mouthed role wasn't buried in an otherwise half-decent if strangely paced, offbeat Western misleadingly titled BADMAN'S TERRITORY, after a strip of purgatory between Indian land and where no white man law and order exist... <br>
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Thus Randolph Scott and tacked-on younger brother fit like loose, leafy gloves, and it takes a while to figure out why these seemingly stalwart heroes are hanging out with The James and Dalton Gangs, which adds to the overall uneven cadence that only sporadically attempts the kind of swift action the Western genre relies on. Leaving one desperate hope in our man Lawrence Tierney who plays, of all people, Jesse James himself; ironic since he'd become famous as another folk-hero outlaw in DILLINGER three years earlier (his moll Anne Jeffreys appears in the BADMAN'S sequel)... <br>

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RANDOLPH SCOTT & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'BADMAN'S TERRITORY'

Lawrence Tierney gets scant screen-time, but looks cool YEAR: 1946 George "Gabby" Hayes is a Cinematic National Treasure; it...

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