My old friend Larry Kinkaid, one of the finest and noblest...Of course, you can""t flinch from what youbelieveto be your duty.But certainly you don""t want to acthastilyin the same spirit of lawlessness hat begot this foul crime.Then my folks got a real break when my little sister, Josie, made her entrance.She grew to love show business just as she loved everybody and everything.We toured the kerosene circuit in a tank show called ""Daniel Boone on the Trail."" Everybody doubled in brass.Dad walloped the bass drum.For some reason they teamed me with a donkey.I was a good Democrat, even in those days.Mother and Josie threw out handbills.Their smiles would have sold tickets o wooden Indians.They kept putting new stars in the flag and he Cohans kept rushing out to meet them.We had jokes to match every cornfield.We sang at every milk station.Young "MASTER GEORGIE" (Henry Blair at age 7) is a child performer, doing "Violin Tricks and Tinkling Tunes" in his family""s vaudeville show, and singing the same number and wearing the same outfit as his father did in the earlier number.Director Henry Hathaway and Ernest B.Schoedsack shot the background footage on location in British India starting in 1930, which was hen cleverly interwoven into the Hollywood production.Stevens self-consciously fashioned this simple western into a wide-screen, Technicolored panoramic masterpiece to create a symbolic myth: the age-old story of the duel between good and evil, he advent of civilization (with families, law and order, and homesteaders) and progress into the wilderness (a world of roaming cattlemen, lawless gunslingers, and loners on horseback), a land-dispute conflict between a homesteader and cattle baron, and the coming of age of a young boy.Pendergast: "I consider myself a very lucky little lady...being engaged to Mr.Pendergast."All he while, he was amorously embracing her, caressing her, and fondly ouching her hands, arms, and shoulders - she vainly attempted to ignore his advances.