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El Paso and Hudspeth and part of Culberson. Canadian provinces using CST in the winter and CDT in the summer: Canadian provinces using CST all year: Atikokan, New Osnaburgh, Pickle Lake. except Creighton and Denare Beach which use CDT during summer, and Lloydminster which is in the MST/MDT zone. Mexican states using CST in the winter and CDT in the summer: Central America. Central American countries using CST all year: Other Time Zones in UTC -6. Some time zones exist that have the same offset as CST, but can be found under a different name: CST time now. вторник 1 июнь 2021 г. Did you mean CDT? CST is currently observed in Guatemala City CST will be observed in Mexico City starting from 31 окт 2021 г. 02:00 UTC -6 9 hours behind Saint-Petersburg. Other names. CST – Tiempo Central Estándar (Spanish) HNC – Heure Normale du Centre (French) My Darling Clementine Savant Blu-ray Review. The most frequent John Ford quote read these days is from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance : 'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend'. That idea is unfortunately still very much culturally alive: everybody seems intent on selling the mass public images, or perceptions, or bills of goods. As far as westerns go, John Ford's legends are almost always preferable to the truth. It's hard to argue with the idealized showdown at the O.K. Corral in Ford's wonderful My Darling Clementine . His myth of a noble Wyatt Earp in a gloriously hopeful new West contains all of what was great in 1946 about both the western and America. Previously a liberal icon, Henry Fonda here became one of the greatest western legends ever, a natural hero shy with women, rough on minorities and murder on bad men: all of the inconsistent 'virtues' Americans admire. The Criterion Collection's definitive presentation bests a 2004 DVD from 20th Fox. It includes both versions of this fundamental American western, the 'Zanuck-tweaked' release version and a preview version that expands and mostly improves on the film. Sam Engel, Sam Hellman and Winston Miller's screenplay simplifies history to near mythical terms. When his brother James (Don Garner) is murdered and his cattle stolen, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) accepts the job as Marshal of Tombstone with his surviving kin Morgan (Ward Bond) and Virgil (Tim Holt) as deputies. Taming the town is fairly easy for the imposing and charismatic Wyatt, with the exception of the reckless Doc Holliday (Victor Mature), a tubercular misfit with a death wish. Clementine Carter (Cathy Downs) arrives from the East to see why Doc hasn't continued to practice medicine and draws the wrath of local strumpet Chihuahua (Linda Darnell), a saloon singer with a heart of gold. But Chihuaha is also carrying on a relationship with the no-good Billy Clanton (John Ireland). His brothers and father Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) are the villains responsible for Wyatt's troubles. It's only a matter of time before more blood is spilled at the O.K. Corral. Anybody who thinks Henry Fonda is cool in Once Upon a Time in the West needs to see My Darling Clementine : without this context it's impossible to gauge the depravity of Fonda's character in the Sergio Leone film. It's a shame nobody recorded Ford's reaction to Leone work, or Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch . If the cantankerous old director was even seeing other people's movies in the late '60s, he would probably not have given his real reaction anyway. We judge the 'real' West by the most convincingly realistic westerns available, and John Sturges' 1967 Hour of the Gun is still the most persuasive version of the 1881 shootout between the Earps and the Clantons. Tombstone was a political battleground between various factions, with the untrustworthy Clantons buying influence on one side and the ambitious Earps abusing appointed law enforcement jobs on the other. When they finally did battle at the O.K. Corral (described in some quarters as an 'Earp drive-by') it's been reported that both factions carried arrest warrants for men on the other side. The Rule of Law requires consensus, and when the most powerful players are at loggerheads real law tends to get left behind. Ford reportedly once hired the real Wyatt Earp to consult on a silent film and claimed his shootout was authentic, which doesn't prevent My Darling Clementine from being a highly entertaining total fiction. But skewed history teaches us about the limitations of our own myths. Fonda's Earp is more than just a generic good guy. He's intrinsically noble, fair, playful and desired by women. His notion of justice is highly discriminatory. He became Marshall after seeing the need to kick a drunken 'buck' out of Tombstone with the admonition, "What kinda town is this anyway, sellin' liquor to Indians?!" It gets a big laugh even as we know that most American towns have traditionally defined law and order as keeping various minorities on a short leash. Once on the job, Wyatt occupies the laconic caretaker role that Ford endorsed until his awkward 1960s westerns. Henry Fonda is all gangly appeal. He uses the same deliberate but graceful walk that would later seem so menacing in his Leone film. When bored he balances in his chair, making his heels dance on the porch support. Ford would later use the same image as shorthand for corruption, through James Stewart in Two Rode Together and Cheyenne Autumn . 1 Enter the wholesome, clear-eyed Clementine Carter (Cathy Downs, later of several notable Z-grade Sci-Fi pictures) and Wyatt turns into a tongue-tied kid with his heart in his throat. This was the vision of clean-cut masculinity for which America pined in 1946, when many of its men were war veterans in need of an uncomplicated vision of life. The Eastern, cultivated, white-bread Clementine contrasts strongly with Tombstone's 'red-hot chili pepper' Chihuaha. This classic dramatic model splits the hero's allegiance between the dark good girl and the lighter bad girl, defined along racial lines. No matter how innocent she may be, the bad girl dies or sacrifices herself and is denied the love of the hero.
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