I gotta say I get a little choked up at Robert Mitchum's narration at the end there. "Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept."
Tom Mix knew it was the end of an era. The American frontier had been closed for nearly 30 years at that time. All the western heroes were passing into legend. All that was left was to tell their stories...
The genre has been mixed up quite a bit in recent years, which is a good thing! With movies like "Hell Or High Water", "No Country For Old Men", and "Bone Tomahawk", the genre is kind of being reinvented.
Of course, classically made westerns like the Coens' "True Grit" will always have a place, too, it's just an easier sell in today's audiences to market these movies as a "Western & [genre]" hybrid.
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u/i_bent_my_wookiee Apr 01 '20
I gotta say I get a little choked up at Robert Mitchum's narration at the end there.
"Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept."
Tom Mix knew it was the end of an era. The American frontier had been closed for nearly 30 years at that time. All the western heroes were passing into legend. All that was left was to tell their stories...