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Arthur Lee Hunnicutt was noteworthy for playing successful character roles and supporting roles in scores of films and television shows, typically playing a wise, plain-spoken man with a distinct Arkansas drawl. He began his film career in 1942 as Watchfob Jones in Wildcat, and went on to play in many B-list westerns. In 1952 he won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Big Sky, and the fame led him to becoming one of the most sought-after character actors in Hollywood.
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Hunnicutt appeared in a number of films in the early 1940s before returning to the stage. In 1949 he moved back to Hollywood and resumed his film career. He played a long string of supporting role characters – sympathetic, wise rural types, as in The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The Lusty Men (1952), The Tall T (1957) and El Dorado (1966).
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As the liquor-laden lawman, Mitchum is a perfect foil for Wayne, although only the lopsided length of their roles keeps Arthur Hunnicutt, one of the best character actors in Hollywood, from stealing the film. In a script full of raucous frontier humor, the most amusing scene slyly comments on the state of the western today. At the fadeout, Wayne has been pinked in the knee, Mitchum in the thigh. With crutches as swagger sticks, they limp triumphantly past the camera—two old pros demonstrating that they are better on one good leg apiece than most of the younger stars on two.
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