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New Mexico | Patriarch
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7.3/10
IMDbBest Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1951
Top Female Character Performance | 1951 | Judith
Final film of Walter Huston. He died before the film was released.
Cinematographer Lee Garmes shot part of this movie, uncredited.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #435.
Considered a financial failure when the film was released, it has since received considerable critical praise and comparisons to classical literature. It has been likened to Shakespeare's "King Lear" and has classic Greek tragedy themes. Director Michael Mann likened it to Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot".
The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Walter Huston; and three Oscar nominees: Judith Anderson, Beulah Bondi, and Barbara Stanwyck.
"Dallas Hart: Just get in off the railroad? Vance Jeffords: Yeah. Dallas Hart: We haven't met before. My name is Dallas Hart. I'm new in town, honey. Vance Jeffords: Honey, you wouldn't be new anyplace."
"Rip Darrow: [to TC, on being immediately insulted and invited to leave the wedding of TC's son] Sir, you posted an open invitation to this gathering on every stick of lumber in the country. To protect those present from any further unpleasantness, I'd like to make a deal with you. You stop telling lies about me, and I'll stop telling the truth about you!"