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CIMARRON 157
original Westerns, have issued from smaller companies. All these films, whether good or bad, have been greatly enhanced by the natural advantages of sound — by hoofbeats and gun-shots and the cries of cattle. Sound has given new life to the primitive Western.
Although I do not think any of these pictures has wholly recaptured the pace or spirit of the early Westerns, yet they are to be welcomed because at least they bring to the screen the beauty of American landscape with its spacious vistas and sunlight. At heart, these films are incidental propaganda for America's resources and courageous enterprise. They are based on the very toughness and primeval spirit of fight and adventure that crop up in American city-life to-day. They are for the most part distinguished by a sincerity of expression which singles them out from more sophisticated products and which makes them peculiarly attractive. Despite the inclusion of stars, they strive after an elemental roughness which makes them good cinema, and the pace demanded by their action is inducive of good technical construction. To me, at any rate, the Western is America's greatest gift to the cinema.
It is typical of the American cinema in both its phases, sound and silent, that one film should appear isolated from a mass of others all dealing with a similar trend of subject, and that this film, if it is not the leader, should arrive on the very peak of popularity for this type of picture. In the case of the Western, this has been fulfilled firsdy by The Covered Wagon,