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11 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
about what you'd expect from a John Wayne B-Movie
from Bradenton, Florida
15 May 2006
This film was a pretty entertaining film and being a B-film, it was
over in under one hour. In other words, it accomplished its modest
goals just fine. While this means that compared to other, A-films, the
movie might seem awfully simplistic, it was simply meant as a second
film on a double-bill. These second features were often made by
lesser-name studios and featured lower budgets and
actors/directors/writers who hadn't yet established themselves in
Hollywood or couldn't make the jump to the higher-level films--hence,
the name &B-Movie&. For years, John Wayne did many Bs and this one is
certainly better than most (such as his &Singing Sandy& and &Three
Mesquiteers& films). It gets the job done and the acting, for Bs, is
very good. By the way, the role of the Major was played by George
Hayes--that's &Gabby& Hayes and wow does he look and sound different
playing a more serious role!
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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Wyoming Statehood
from Buffalo, New York
27 January 2007
The year is 1890 and Wyoming would like to be a state, but certain
lawless elements want to keep it a territory. There will be a
plebiscite to decide the issue and the outlaws are going to win this
thing by hook or crook. There's redundancy if I've ever written one.The Lawless Nineties has John Wayne as a 'government man' one of
several sent in to the territory to see the elections are run fair and
square. With maybe more than a little leaning on the side of the
homesteaders and small ranchers and merchants who want statehood.There actually is some historical basis for this. In this year, the
president of the United States is Republican Benjamin Harrison and he's
got a Congress with his party controlling both houses. Because of that
six states get admitted in his four years as president, Wyoming being
one of them the others being Idaho, Montana, Washington, and North and
South Dakota. The idea was very simple, the territories were Republican
leaning for the most part and would furnish representation in Congress
to keep his party in power.I'm assuming that the Duke as a 'government man' was working for the
Department of Justice and oddly enough the film anticipates by about
thirty years the Justice Department performing just such an electoral
function that they did in the South after the Voting Rights Act was
passed.It's a novel and interesting premise for a western and another thing I
thought was unique was the outlaw's use of early electronic
surveillance to find out what the federal government's plans were and
take steps to foil them. Of course there is no radio and the use of the
telephone was not common yet in the west. We're talking here about the
telegraph and Wayne does figure it out.But sad to say that The Lawless Nineties is spoiled by the use of Etta
McDaniel and Fred Toone as some black stereotypes, really, really bad
ones. Sadder still because there was no need to bring them in, the
racial issue just wasn't germane to the plot. It's been twenty five years since the end of the Civil War and Toone
and McDaniel act like Gabby Hayes and Ann Rutherford as a father and
daughter resettled from Virginia still own them. Gabby is far from the
grizzled, hairy old cuss we love. He's got a handlebar mustache and a
clipped goatee and speaks in cultured upper class Southern tones. Not
what we normally get from Gabby.The action is good in The Lawless Nineties and I only wish that
Republic hadn't seen the need to include McDaniel and Toone in the
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