Escape From Quarantine With a Western Movie
The best genre for the age of social distancing is one full of gorgeous scenes of the great outdoors.
Almost every second of action in Howard Hawks’s 1948 film , one of Hollywood’s greatest Westerns, takes place outside. An epic account of a 1,000-mile cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, the movie follows the rancher Thomas Dunson (played by John Wayne) and his protégé, Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift), as they move their cows north on a perilous march. When their journey comes to an end, Garth walks into a building and looks up in astonishment. “A roof is funny,” he muses. “We haven’t been
