Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
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- TriviaLoretta Young was pregnant with her son Christopher Lewis during shooting and was told by her doctor to take it easy because of all the horseback riding she had to do.
- ErroresWhen Cherry shoots Melody's hat, the bullet enters on the front up near the crown. As Melody walks away, no exit hole is seen anywhere, either in the top of the crown or out the back of the hat.
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George Fury: Who is it?
Melody Jones: That used to be Packard, the Express Company fella.
George Fury: Well that cinched the duck! Now they got a corpus delicti!
Melody Jones: A what?
George Fury: A dead body! That's the way the law says it. Corpus delicti. Means that if they got a corpse, you're delicti! Before this, even if they hung ya, we could have proved it was a mistake.
- ConexionesFeatured in John Wayne Made Me Cry: Our Western Heros (2002)
As in THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, we have two "saddle bums" riding into a town following a crime. There Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan, despite a brawl in Victor Killian's saloon, are accepted by the vigilantes as members of their posse (Morgan volunteers them, as he figures Fonda and he may be suspected as the murderers if they don't go along). They do try what they can to stop the lynchings of Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, and Francis Ford, but fail because they are outnumbered (and out-gunned). In ALONG CAME JONES, Melody Jones and George Fury (Gary Cooper and William Demerest) are two "saddle bums" riding into a town following a crime. But everyone reacts strangely to them (the sharper Demerest realizes this when they constantly call him "Uncle Roscoe", and when the townspeople keep swallowing downright insulting behavior from Cooper). It is only later that they learn from Cherry De Longpre (Loretta Young) that the initials on Melody's belongings "M.J." are the same as the wanted man Monte Jarrad, who is a notoriously nasty customer and killer. The references to "Uncle Roscoe" is to a half-wit uncle who accompanies Jarrad (whom the town folk think is Demerest - something that almost drives him up a wall). It doesn't help that both Jarrad and Jones are of similar heights and builds, and that the locals have not seen Jarrad for five years.
The willingness of the locals to shoot first and ask questions later is shown by the number of times people get a bead on Cooper (who, ironically, is not only pacifistic but relatively inept with a gun). But each time they do that somebody intervenes in some way that prevents them from completing their desired objective - ridding the world of the man they think is Monte Jarrad. This is not like the situation in THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, where (unfortunately) the lynch mob is well run by the local deputy and a former Confederate major. Here the conflicting reasons for people to go after Jarrad helps prevent them time after time from doing in Jones.
We also are brought up short on one point that Walter Clarke's novel THE OX-BOW INCIDENT dismissed to heighten it's irony. There the victims of the vigilantes were innocent (although one, Anthony Quinn, had a "colorful career including a knifing incident). In ALONG CAME JONES, Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea) is being searched for by not one but four vigilante groups. He has killed men in a stagecoach robbery, so he is sought by the stagecoach company for its money, the sheriff for murder, and the federal Marshall (some mail was stolen too). He has killed people from a large, powerful family in the territory too, so they are searching for him. As you can see Monte is not a nice guy. He's not like Dana Andrews in THE OX-BOW INCIDENT. In Duryea's superb performance, he is a nervous, suspicious, mean tempered s.o.b. That he was wounded in the robbery (and cannot get to a doctor yet) has increased his worst habits. But one senses that he was never far (in his personality) from his currently lousy personality.
Which leads to the one flaw in the film. Cherry's character is connected to Monte. Her brother and dad are members of his gang. She is his girl. At one point she tells Melody that Monte and she grew up together. To an extent this explains how she might have some loyalty to her childhood companion, but Cherry can't help seeing Monte's basically rotten disposition and his murderous temper. Yet she is loyal enough to him to try to use an unaware Melody as a bait to draw away these various vigilante groups so that Monte can get away. She says (later to Melody) that she knew it was the only chance Monte would have. But why did she feel Monte deserved this chance? In the end, as the number of dead increase (mostly due to Monte's temper), and as she gets to know the sweet tempered Melody better, Cherry changes to be more critical of her old childhood acquaintance. In the end she has to resolve the crisis of the film over who will win out, Monte or Melody. But why it took her so long to realize the truth just is not settled.
Nevertheless, the film is a funny horse opera. Melody and George are as funny as traveling companions as Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda in THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB. There, Fonda spends the first three and a half minutes chattering away while the two are just aimlessly riding their horses. At the end of that time, Stewart pointedly asks Fonda if he realizes that he has been talking for nearly 1000 miles! Here Demerest (clearly the wiser of the two in the film) tries to talk sense to Cooper, only to find the latter dreaming of becoming a greater man by capturing the fearsome Duryea, or of doing all sorts of dangerous things for Young (even though Young admits they are foolhardy and dangerous). And all Demerest gets in return are additional choruses of Cooper's favorite song, "Old Joe Clark". But Cooper does show a real loyalty to his friend in the end. It is when Duryea (for typically mean reasons) critically wounds Demerest that Cooper decides to do what he can to bring the desperado down.
- theowinthrop
- 11 sept 2005
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 30 minutos
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- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1