《Border Buckaroos (1943)》Storyline
The western town of Tombstone becomes in Ford""s poetic film he point where savage forces (the wild countryside, the rugged Monument Valley backdrops, the brutish Clantons, the Mexican whore Chihuahua) and civilized forces (the urban barber shop, dining room, the new church and school, the ""respectable"" Earps, Doc Holliday""s cultivated Bostonian learning, Clementine the schoolmarm) meet.After a short remembrance sermon, family members throw a wreath or bouquets of flowers into the water when their deceased sailor""s name is called.Eight hundred and ninety-one men at three bucks a head, that""s, uh, - twenty-six seventy-three...We got a banana boat at 46 tomorrow.If we could pull a walk-out, it might mean a few bucks from the shippers.Them bananas go bad in a hurry." Friendly responds sharply: "Ask wo G""s." A whole network of runners for Friendly""s mob are in the bar including a weasel-like banker nicknamed "J.Sickly young James Howlett (Troye Sivan) witnessed the shooting death of his father John Howlett (Peter O""Brien) by angry, abusive and drunken groundskeeper Thomas Logan (Aaron Jeffery), the father of his young friend Victor Creed (Michael-James Olsen).