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B Movie | Moral Courage
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This was the final feature film for director Joseph H. Lewis. He would spend much of the next decade directing television episodes before retiring from the industry.
Nedrick Young, who plays Johnny Crale, actually wrote much of the script, but because he had been blacklisted as a "subversive" during the McCarthy Red Scare period, he was not credited for it.
Gerald Fried composed a minimalistic and non-traditional score for this film. It is performed by a small ensemble consisting of mostly solo trumpet, acoustic guitar, English horn, tympani, and percussion. There are no strings or other "big orchestra" elements. And the themes are decidedly non-Western, tending to the classical and baroque.
While screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was famously blacklisted (writing this in secret), it's untrue that Nedrick Young was blacklisted, or considered a "subversive" since he has a slew of credits during the 1950's.
Nedrick Young and Sterling Hayden also worked on both sides of the law (the bad guy and good guy) in the film noir Crime Wave.
"Brady: I don't think you've the guts right now to admit that this fellow McNeil had me burned down. Deacon Matt Holmes: Oh, take it easy Brady. Brady: Take it easy, Matt, what are you talking about take it easy? Didn't we agree to stick together? Well I stuck. Whose house got burned down? Mine! Whose barn went up in smoke? Mine! Whose livestock burned up? Mine!"
"Crale: I saw a man who was not afraid to die."
