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Two years after Jimmy Stewart chased a very special firearm, 1952 brought a flick that followed a similar concept. Springfield Rifle features Gary Cooper in a Western that involves another amazing weapon.

Set during the Civil War, Union Major Lex Kearny (Cooper) gets a dishonorable discharge related to cowardice in battle. This disrupts his life in a mix of ways, especially when his family feels shame.

However, it turns out Lex did all this as a ruse so he could go undercover among Confederate forces to reveal rustlers. When this pretense becomes unveiled, Lex needs to use the experimental and extremely powerful “Springfield rifle” to survive.

Although I implied Rifle followed in the footsteps of Winchester, they don’t really share plot similarities. While both involve special firearms, they diverge in pretty much all other ways.

Ignoring story domains, I think Rifle offers a downgrade from Winchester due to its choice of lead actor. Put bluntly, Cooper simply never approached Stewart in terms of talent.

Although I can see Cooper’s appeal as a screen presence, his acting often seemed stiff and unnatural. Sure, he still could do well at times, but in general, I think he became a negative more than a positive in many of his films.

Cooper’s iffy chops turn into a problem during Rifle, as he simply lacks the range to pull off the role’s demands. Given the ways Lex must balance his real life and his subterfuge, the part needs an actor with layers and nuance.

That’s not Cooper. He plays Lex as The Gary Cooper Character and never produces anything more resonant.

As such, Cooper does fine in the tough guy scenes but he falters when the movie asks for more range from Lex. I can’t call Cooper’s performance a disappointment, but his work nonetheless acts as a liability for this complex character.

It doesn’t help that Rifle comes with a fairly scattered and less than focused plot. The story doesn’t evolve in a particularly coherent manner.

Instead, Rifle tends to feel like a collection of semi-related scenes that exist mainly to reveal the title weapon. Eventually.

Rifle takes its own sweet time to involve the powerful firearm. A lot of this comes across like dawdling and the film doesn’t tend to use that space terribly well.

At 93 minutes, Rifle seems short enough that it doesn’t wear out its welcome, and it brings the occasional effective action scene. The whole package doesn’t connect well, unfortunately, so this lands as a scattershot Western.

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The maverick Hollywood stylist André de Toth sharpened his craft in his native Hungary, including making this chic, dynamic melodrama, studded with deco decor and jazzy musical interludes. Two upwardly mobile working women—one a musician in an all-girl band, the other a bricklayer—join forces in their attempts to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love. Kinetic camera work, brisk editing, and avant-garde imagery abound in this often strikingly modern ode to the power of working-class female solidarity.

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Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by Andre DeToth. The film is based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler and stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, and Raymond Burr.

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It’s 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort. In the desert they are reinforced by members of a stagecoach and find some water at a deserted mission. Pinned down by Black Cloud they send an Indian boy who was Black Cloud’s prisoner on to the fort while they try to bargain with Black Cloud whom they learn is without water. Written by Maurice VanAuken

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An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

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Eastman Museum writes:
According to Quentin Tarantino, his eighth and latest film not only pays homage to that peculiar brand of the western set not in dust but in snow, but also an even more peculiar genre of the so-called parlor room mystery. André De Toth’s criminally underrated Day of the Outlaw happened to mine a similar territory in 1959: Set in an isolated, snow-covered town in the far West, the story has a renegade army officer named Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) and his henchmen riding into the town threatening their worst to the men and women there. Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) decides to agree to Bruhn’s demands for someone knowledgeable to lead them away from the law and the town, to safety. Mortally wounded himself, Bruhn opts to take Starrett up on his offer in one last act of generosity toward the townspeople, sparing them the mayhem threatened by his men.

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The Dirty Dozen meets the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive (Sir Michael Caine) is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel (Nigel Green), in charge of the Dirty Dozen, is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission four hundred miles behind German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive, who tries to argue his way out by saying that his contract states he is to only work port duties. That argument is lost on the Brigade Commander (Harry Andrews), who simply points out that the executive is wearing a British uniform. The real leader of the Dirty Dozen (Nigel Davenport), a released prisoner, doesn’t need or want the British officer, who’s supposed to be in charge, but he’s promised an extra two thousand British pounds sterling if he gets him back alive. Disguised as Italians, their trek across Rommel’s Africa includes meeting and battling many kinds of enemies.

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