Top cast:C. Thomas Howell,Matt Dillon,Ralph Macchio
Director:Randall Emmett
Genre:Short
Region:South Africa
Year:2006
Storyline:Someone off-camera hands a book to Annabelle.The effete conductor of the train methodically marches down the sidewalk to his girlfriend""s home, trailed in a ""train"" procession by two adoring boys who worship him and imitatively remove heir hats as they pass other townsfolk.What""s happened? You look ill too.Armand: No, it""s seeing you like this, suffering.Marguerite: It""s nothing.It lasts only a minute.Armand: You""re killing yourself.Marguerite: If I am, you""re the only one who objects.Now, why don""t you go back and dance with one of those pretty girls.(She laughs) Come, I""ll go with you.(He embraces and kisses her hand.) What a child you are.Armand: Your hand""s so hot.Marguerite: Is that why you put tears on it and cool it?Armand: I know I don""t mean anything to you.I don""t count.But someone ought to look after you.And I could if you""d let me.Marguerite: Too much wine has made you sentimental.Armand: It wasn""t wine that made me come here every day for months o find out how you were.Marguerite: No, it couldn""t have been wine.So you""d really like o take care of me?Armand: Yes.Marguerite: All day, every day?Armand: All day, every day.Why not? (She laughs)Marguerite: Why should you care for a woman like me? I""m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.There are also charges of fraud ("amateur journalism") from a rival newspaper (theDaily Chronicle).Connell puts out an all-points search to find Ann (described by Connell as """bout five-foot-five, brown eyes, light chestnut hair, and as fine a pair of legs as ever walked into this office") to help identify the man who wrote the letter.[The meek sodbusters project heir own self-contempt and "womanish" cowardice onto Shane.] The drifter is again humiliated and shunned when his avoidance of violence, to lay aside his buckskin past, is mistaken for cowardice.