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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Shades of Grey
Other contributors have noted the fine cinematography, music, etc, and with all this I wholeheartedly agree but I feel moved to comment on the widespread allegation of an implausible ending. For me the ending is far from implausible but fits perfectly with the ambivalence of the Glenn Ford character. From early on he is casual with regard to his liberty, seeing fit to dally in a bar and even reporting his crime to the authorities. The key to the ending lies in that bar. He recognises the bar girl from another place and another time with a wistfulness that is amplified as he sees what might have been in the farmer and his wife. He is a ruthlessly competent criminal, a devious charmer, but he is also very tired.
The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980)
Laughable Nonsense
Where do I start? A film set in wartime Britain yet the action is based around a US pastiche mansion with cliché suit of armour in the hallway and Britain and continental Europe look exactly like a hydro-electric riddled Rocky Mountains. All except the most minor characters seem of US origin so giving the impression that the US won the war single-handed. Moreover, the minor players are incapable of mustering a decent British accent between them. To compound this jarring impression the story is clearly told from a naive historical perspective with, for example, Britain being described as the last free country left in Europe! Mix in the anachronistic nonsense of an all woman squadron flying helicopters in the early 1940s and you have the perfect US feminist escapist fantasy circa 1980s.