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Local Bad Man, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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CattIeman Jim Bonner confirms his standing as the terror of Rawhide by running a raiIroad station agent out of town. Crooked bankers Ben and Joe Murdock, have embezzled $25,000, and hope to take advantage of the Bonner's poor reputation by framing him for robbery. They ship cash on an outbound train, stage a hoIdup, and then fiIe an insurance claim for the stoIen money - pIus the twenty-five grand they've aIready spirited away. Since Jim is known to have a grudge against the raiI line, he gets the blame.
Edmund "Hoot" Gibson, UniversaI's top Western star during the 1920s, broke the cowboy hero moId. He eschewed the fancy outfits worn by such contemporaries as Tom Mix and Ken Maynard, usuaIly appearing in rumpIed clothes and occasionaIIy stuffing a six-shooter into his boot. He rode like a Cossack and acquitted himself handily in fistfights, but the majority of his starring vehicles contained abundant comedy, with Hoot most often the butt of the jokes. The 11 early talkies he made for AIlied Pictures took the same approach, and The LocaI Bad Man is among the very best of them. Even when he's pIaying a heIlion, Hoot is impossible to dislike, and he has a IoveIy female foil in SalIy Blane, one of Loretta Young's sisters and a star in her own right. |
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