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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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Description: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he’s innocent and asks the town’s most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

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Plot:
A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart. Written by Daniel Bubbeo

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The Damned Don’t Cry – It’s a man’s world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there’s only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster’s mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel’s swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

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