When Mamie Lee's father, Sam Corwin, is sentenced to jail for forgery, the sheriff, Ed Cass, offers to cover the debt in return for Mamie Lee's hand in marriage. The distraught daughter agrees, and Cass robs the saloon to obtain the money, placing the blame on Jim Kane, his rival for Mamie's affections.


The first time I saw The Man Who Dared it was a battered 16 mm print flickering against a brick wall in a back-alley cine-club; the projector rattled like a bad cough, yet the images—motes of silver swimming through tar—felt like trespassing inside someone’s cathedral of private wounds. Jules Furthman’s script, usual...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Emmett J. Flynn

Emmett J. Flynn
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" The first time I saw The Man Who Dared it was a battered 16 mm print flickering against a brick wall in a back-alley cine-club; the projector rattled like a bad cough, yet the images—motes of silver swimming through tar—felt like trespassing inside someone’s cathedral of private wounds. Jules Furthman’s script, usually a sly jazz of underworld patter (Mr. Fix-It), here strips itself to a raw nerve: a father’s forged signature becomes a death warrant for innocence, a sheriff’s badge morphs into..."
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