Eddie is a tenderfoot who goes west to take charge of a ranch, and is received by the villainous band of quick shooters who want to get his property..
The flicker begins like a tintype come alive: a single-track railroad slicing through ochre mesas, a Pullman car disgorging Eddie—all city creases and celluloid collar—into a dust devil of suspicion. From that first juxtaposition of starched linen against weather-scoured plankwalk, Hurry West announces its central te...
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" The flicker begins like a tintype come alive: a single-track railroad slicing through ochre mesas, a Pullman car disgorging Eddie—all city creases and celluloid collar—into a dust devil of suspicion. From that first juxtaposition of starched linen against weather-scoured plankwalk, Hurry West announces its central tension: the arithmetic of innocence versus experience written in gunpowder. Director Robert Emmett O'Connor (pulling double duty as the whiskey-soused sheriff) stages the takeover ..."
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