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Tall in the Saddle (1944)
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29 September 1944 (USA)
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The Saturday Evening Post Story Comes to Life! more
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When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered...
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Entertaining Western
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(Complete credited cast) | John Wayne | ... | Rocklin |
 | Ella Raines | ... | Arleta 'Arly' Harolday |
 | Ward Bond | ... | 'Judge' Robert Garvey |
 | George 'Gabby' Hayes | ... | Dave |
| Audrey Long | ... | Clara Cardell |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Miss Elizabeth Martin |
| Donald Douglas | ... | Harolday (as Don Douglas) |
| Paul Fix | ... | Bob Clews |
| Russell Wade | ... | Clint Harolday |
| Emory Parnell | ... | Sheriff Jackson |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Zeke |
| Harry Woods | ... | George Clews |
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87 min | West Germany:95 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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This was the first John Wayne film to be shown on American network television.
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Spoofed in Tall in the Trap (1962)
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Perfectly paced film. Many older films as well as new ones are not as successful as they could be due to poor pacing. It's hard to define pacing - it is maybe in the editing, the director rushing or slowing down the actors, or the way the camera shots are set up. Whatever "pacing" is, this film is a good example of it.
This film makes very good use of character actors (Fix, Gabby, and the others). The producers trusted them enough to really feature them in some scenes, and they deliver. It seems that most producers (in the 1940's as well as today) are afraid to take the camera off the film's star for fear of not making big box-office.
Wayne does a great job in a no-nonsense, straight-arrow role. It is amazing how he could make such a character charismatic, rather than wooden. Ella Raines and Wayne should have made more movies together because they had good chemistry. More importantly Raines was capable of portraying one of the major character traits of the western United States expansion- strong women.
Film buffs can view "Tall in the Saddle" as good movie-making, but anyone can just view it as good entertainment and not even stop to analyze anything. Perhaps that is the genius of a film like this.