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  Stagecoach 1939

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2021

  This is quite some masterpiece. Memorable dialogues, impressive lighting. Tension is built through subtle facial expressions in claustrophobic settings. Stagecoach is made by a director who trusts his guts and his actors.

  Marshall: "You, Doc?"
  Dr. Boone: "I am not only a philosopher, sir. I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle... waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?"
  Marshall: "Yes or no?"
  Dr. Boone: "Having that philosophy, sir, I've always…

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  My Darling Clementine 1946

  ★★★★½ Added

  So much poetry in one film. Subtle dialogues. Sublime lighting.

  Wyatt Earp: "Mac, you ever been in love?"
  Mac: "No, I've been a bartender all my life."

  The one who hates himself the most, Doc Holliday, gravely feared by the Tombstone community, is loved profoundly by those who matter.

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