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The Usual Incompetence?

posted 18 years ago by anthony-sutcliffe
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Just started watching The Far Country that I taped off ITV in the UK. Either this film contains one of the most incompetent sequences I’ve seen in a Hollywood feature (unlikely) or ITV’s print has lost a section some years ago and nobody has ever noticed (knowing ITV, very likely). Can anyone help me out with what is in the original film?

12 minutes in, James Stewart is riding his cattle through town towards a hanging. Some of the crowd start to move away. We then cut to Ruth Roman leaning over a balcony. Then we cut to James Stewart’s companions trying to take the blame for letting the cattle loose and the Sheriff arresting Stewart for busting up a hanging. We don’t see the cattle bust up the hanging and we don’t see where Stewart’s friends have come from, why Stewart stopped his horse or even what happened to the cattle?!?

Let me know if I’m missing something here so I can write to ITV and complain.
Cheers!

[–] CmdrCody 18 years ago

Sounds like bad editing from ITV. Do they commercials on that channel? The Far Country is one of my favorite westerns. The hanging scene has the cattle moving through the scene with them bumping the gallows. That's when Dah Judge gets pissed and pulls over Jimmy Stewart. Pretty straight forward.

CmdrCody

[–] anthony-sutcliffe 18 years ago

Thanks for that, I thought that was probably the case. ITV do have commercials - they placed them at the end of this scene. I guess their print got damaged some time in the past and didn't bother to do anything about it. Will have to get The Far Country on DVD and see it properly. Cheers!

[–] CmdrCody 18 years ago

Outstanding idea. I was just thinking..."The Far Country" was the first VHS tape I ever bought. back in 1986.

Regards,

CmdrCody

[–] pt100 9 years ago

I think you can get a DVD on Amazon for about $5 U.S.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -- A. Einstein

[–] sockscats 13 years ago

Pony up the cash for the DVD, it costs little. This is a truly great western, a great film overall.

[–] bear022013-909-645034 8 years ago

Agreed!

[–] bear022013-588-696101 9 years ago

Good,clean,well written and no filthy language....Alberta scenery and a great cast.

[–] seth_yeah 7 years ago

Needs more cussing though.

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[–] bear022013-909-645034 8 years ago

If you still exist.......you must be terribly confused.
The Far Country film defies description.No adjectives are worthy enough.
I give it a 10.

[–] Wuchak (8068) 7 years ago

Lol, there's ZERO "gay subtext." It doesn't exist, except in the minds of those who WANT to see that non-interpretation for obvious reasons. Their relationship was akin to father/son with Brennan as the feeble father figure and Stewart as the caring "son." There was a best bud thing going on too. Romantically speaking, Jeff had two good-lookin' females on his mind, not some old coot father-figure.