Top cast:Francis X. Bushman,Lottie Briscoe,Dorothy Phillips
Director:José María Bosch&Fructuós Gelabert
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Denmark
Year:2022
Storyline:]Based upon the controversial, published, semi-fictional 1935 novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, this anti-war film emphasizes the wide, hierarchical gap between those who take orders and fight the wars in muddy trenches, and those that give the orders and are isolated from the real ravages of war.And he came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think about eight and ten.And he had a good employment record, good references, and from what I""ve been told, I mean he seemed like a completely normal individual.Muley: Everybody""s got to get off.Everybody""s leavin"", goin"" out o California.Your folks, my folks, everybody""s folks.Everybody except me.I ain""t gettin"" off.Tom: Who done it?Muley: Listen.(Muley gestures toward the howling wind.) That""s some of what done it.The dusters.They start it anyways.Blowin"" like his year after year.Blowin"" the land away.Blowin"" the crops away.And blowin"" us away now.Tom: You crazy?Muley: Some say that I am.In the first of two flashbacks that emphasize the wide gap between the rich and poor classes and the failure of the tenant system, Muley remembers how he, one of the dispossessed, was driven off the land by the Shawnee Land and Cattle Company."Sousè is recognized as an easy mark and sucker by fast-talking con salesman J.Frothingham Waterbury (Russell Hicks), who is impeccably dressed in expensive clothes and a white panama hat.