What to expect
The film belongs to the period when popular Western fiction supplied cinema with landscapes, moral codes, and racial assumptions ready for visual expansion.
How to ease in
Use the pursuit and divided loyalties as your route through the plot. At the same time, keep the genre’s treatment of the border and Mexican characters under scrutiny.
Heads-up
Friendship, romance, and pursuit unfold along the border in an early adaptation of Zane Grey’s Western novel.
The desert is presented as open space, yet genre conventions have already assigned everyone a place within it. I watch for the moments when landscape appears freer than the story.
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The desert is presented as open space, yet genre conventions have already assigned everyone a place within it. I watch for the moments when landscape appears freer than the story.
— Momo
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