
Somewhere between the last gasp of the Victorian melodrama and the first snarl of hard-boiled pulp, The Shootin' Fool gallops—hooves sparking on the gravel of a country that hasn’t yet learned to call itself modern. Picture 1919: the Great War is a fresh scar, Prohibition a gathering storm, and the movies—still mute...
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" Somewhere between the last gasp of the Victorian melodrama and the first snarl of hard-boiled pulp, The Shootin' Fool gallops—hooves sparking on the gravel of a country that hasn’t yet learned to call itself modern. Picture 1919: the Great War is a fresh scar, Prohibition a gathering storm, and the movies—still mute—are learning to shout in shadows. Into this liminal moment director Francis J. Grandon drops a reel that runs barely an hour yet feels like a blood transfusion for a genre not yet..."

1930 · IMDb 5.2


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