Comments on: The Golden West (1932) https://rarefilmm.com/2018/10/the-golden-west-1932/ The Cave of Forgotten Films Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:41:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: George https://rarefilmm.com/2018/10/the-golden-west-1932/#comment-19344 Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:41:23 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=5090#comment-19344 A good example of Fox and their early “talkie” Westerns. This one with big George O’Brien of SUNRISE, THE IRON HORSE, and NOAH’S ARK fame. and many other films from the silent era. A valiant production that struggles to overcome a choppy script with big gaps in the scenario and little character development, looking for all the world like a long novel condensed into a 60-minute short story.

This particular print is abysmal, a digitized VHS tape of a dupe of a 35mm print. The details are all gone, most faces are washed-out white masks with four dots on them, and there’s even some visible video tape stretching. Terrible!

]]> By: Steve Burstein https://rarefilmm.com/2018/10/the-golden-west-1932/#comment-3398 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:35:28 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=5090#comment-3398 Western Romeo and Juliet meets the Last of the Mohicans. The Jewish Irishman is like a replacement for El Brendel.

]]> By: Steve Burstein https://rarefilmm.com/2018/10/the-golden-west-1932/#comment-3397 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:08:01 +0000 http://rarefilmm.com/?p=5090#comment-3397 A pre-merger FOX film that appears to have been re-issued later by 20TH Century-Fox(hence the familiar opening logo).

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