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My Darling Clementine

1946

John Ford

Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan ...

8.0

9,157

Western. Drama Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), after cleaning up Dodge City, arrives in the outskirts of Tombstone with his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James (Don Garner), planning to sell their cattle and settle down as gentlemen farmers. Yet Wyatt, disgusted by crime and cattle rustling, eventually agrees to take the marshalling job until he can gather enough evidence to bring to justice the scurrilous Clanton clan, headed by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"John Ford's greatest Western (...) Most Westerns put the emphasis on the showdown. “My Darling Clementine” builds up to the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral, but it is more about everyday things--haircuts, romance, friendship, poker and illness (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Making myths of American west into poetry (...) Masterpiece"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Even with standard Western fiction—and that's what the script has enjoined—Mr. Ford can evoke fine sensations and curiously-captivating moods."	POS
United States	Matthew Connolly Slant	"Masterpiece (...) A master class in how physical space can be transformed to evoke the psychological landscape of the characters inhabiting it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"John Ford was only interested in the myth that this story represented, not the reality, and the portrait of the Old West he paints ranks among the most evocative ever produced (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Here’s what 'My Darling Clementine' gets right about being a magnificent Western: almost everything (...) [It] is chock-full of terrific actors"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"This John Ford picture boasts some fine sequences (...) The picture combines both the grandeur and the folksiness so typical of its director (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"The main character is the land (...) The abstract grandeur of Monument Valley sets up the movie’s tale of revenge within a mythic context (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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