Thursday, April 23, 2020

Emperor of the North - Day 11




Hobos. Damn hobos! Ernest Bournine has to keep them off his train, even kill them if he has to. Lee Marvin is going to ride that train and get retribution on that hobo buster. Keith Carradine is his hobo protege. Marvin seriously says to him, “You could be a great bum.”

I didn’t expect to like a film about hobos as much as I did, but being directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) its no surprise. There’s real tension working here. A really surprising find.

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