FROM NOON TILL THREE United States 1976 Director: Frank Gilroy
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland
Rating: 3 out of 5
Charles Bronson doing comedy? Well, I've hardly seen any of his movies, just heard of action or westerns where he's a tough guy with a gun.
The western genre is not my favorite, since many of them lack originality. It's the same old thing in most of them: an outlaw, a sheriff and a bank or farm to fight about and a twist of love. Some manage to stand out though, like this one. Graham Dorsey and his gang is on the way to rob a bank in a small western town and stays at the isolated house of a young widow, Amanda, to steal a horse. While the others stay on, Dorsey stays at the house with the beautiful woman. They very quickly fall in love with each other (if you buy that a woman would fall in love with a man who first tried to rape her). They spend a few wonderful hours together. Afraid of getting caught, Dorsey leaves Amanda. On the road to the town, he quickly changes clothes with a travelling salesman, then escapes with the salesman's goods. The salesman, wearing Dorsey's clothes, is killed by the posse. Believing that he is dead, Amanda and a ghost writer writes a tearjerker about their few hours together which becomes a success. The story is not completly true, she has rather refined the story to make it sell better.
It's a quite nice little movie, not overlong or filled with clichés. The only thing I found disturbing was Amanda's reaction when Dorsey returned. Who could anyone not recognize Bronson if they had met him once. Amanda, played by Bronson's wife Ireland is a good actress too. That she was forty when the film was made is hard to believe, she looks more like twentyfive.
Mattias Thuresson mattias.thuresson@mbox300.swipnet.se 980627
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