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Barbara Stanwyck: Man
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Potent western melodrama from Anthony Mann stars Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston as a rich rancher and his free spirited daughter who start a bizarre battle of wills over her gambler boyfriend (Wendell Corey) and his gold digging fiancee (Judith Anderson). Awesome performances. Excellent quality.
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"Barbara Stanwyck has played five gun molls, two burlesque queens, half a dozen adulteresses and twice as many murderess. When she was good, she was very, very good. And when she was bad, she was terrific." - Walter Matthau 1981.
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Synopsis: The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she's seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the street. The murderer is George Sanders, an ex-Nazi with plenty of experience in covering his tracks. Deftly disposing of body and clues, Sanders is able to convince theRead More
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Inspired by the life of Los Angeles-based evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Stanwyck’s second collaboration with Capra produced this riveting portrayal of the daughter of a fallen minister who curses his congregation for their hypocrisy. Vowing to turn her anger into cash by exploiting blind faith, she becomes “Sister Fallon,” who performs fake miracles in exchange for donations. Her scheme works well until a handsome blind man (Manners) captures her heart. The remnants of Semple’s church still exist on Glendale Blvd. in Echo Park.
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The second such scene occurs on the train that Stanwyck takes to get to her groom. She's well-mannered, but the several other mail-order brides in the same coach have joined for raucous conversation, including such alluring remarks as, "Is it true what they say about men with bushy eyebrows and long noses?" The laughter that the women burst into tells us that they know what body parts about which are truly being inquired of.
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