Decades ago, when I first saw this film, I couldn't believe that I saw a scene in a Randolph Scott-western where he tells his leading lady to...
--Unbutton her blouse to distract one of their captors...
--Grabs the captor's double-barreled shotgun and then blows his face off at point blank range right in front of his romantic interest[ladylike Maureen O'Sullivan]...
--Then says to Miss O'Sullivan, "Don't look at him..." in his North Carolina accent.
Yeah, better to die than ruffle a lady's sensibilities, right?
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living!!!"
Augustus McCrae
Of course not.
Just that it was rather unusual to see Randy Scott in such a situation in one of his erstwhile Westerns, that's all...
Perhaps this was the consistent element in his films that differentiated him from the Duke, whose persona appeared to be a little more rough and ready around the edges.🐭
shareIn the majority of Scott's western films, yes. That is what prompted film director Budd Boetticher to say this of Randolph Scott---"He was pure class." Scott, like Bogart, was a World War I veteran. Scott served in the artillery division in France. Wayne, of course, NEVER enlisted or served in the Armed Forces. Only in the movies...
shareWayne was never in the military, blah blah blah. So what? Millions of us have never been in the military. That doesn't make us villains. Grow up.
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