La ley del valor

Título original: Bad Bascomb

1946
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1h 52min

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Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien in La ley del valor (1946)

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA notorious outlaw befriends a young girl while hiding out in a Mormon wagon train headed for Utah.A notorious outlaw befriends a young girl while hiding out in a Mormon wagon train headed for Utah.A notorious outlaw befriends a young girl while hiding out in a Mormon wagon train headed for Utah.

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aberlour36

A cute film

Pure 1946. Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien try to steal from the film from each other. It's a hoot. Great entertainment.

7SnoopyStyle

adorable Margaret O'Brien and Wallace Beery

After the Civil War, the western territories becomes lawless lands. The federal government sends men tasked with tracking down notorious bandit Zeb Bascomb (Wallace Beery). They ambush Bascomb and his men, but he escapes with his right hand man Bart Yancy. The duo encounters a Mormon wagon train and lie their way to joining them where Bascomb befriends young orphan Emmy (Margaret O'Brien).

Margaret O'Brien is doing her usual adorable self and Wallace Beery is doing Wallace Beery. The comedic duo has easy chemistry. The plot does get in the way a little. Emmy goes one step too far and the movie hits a bit of a bump. Nevertheless, this is a fine fun western.

7Silents Fan

With Beery, O'Brien and Maine, who needs a plot?

Sure, this is just another horse opera, but who cares?

Wallace Beery is more entertaining just being Wallace Beery than most actors are with sparkling dialogue and auteur direction.

Magararet O'Brien: Shirley Temple she ain't! When people talk about child stars, they usually mention Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper; Mickey Rooney and Dickie Moore; Baby Peggy and Hailie Mills. Give me Margaret O'Brien any day.

Marjorie Main could lick her weight in Marie Dresslers, any day.

Pure entertainment!

8dpoppyman1

A movie about redemption

Bad Bascomb is a bad man. A very bad man. So is his sidekick, Bart Yancy. They are remorseless in all of their criminal activities, including the heartless murder of an elderly scout for a Mormon wagon train headed west. Hunted men, they take cover in the wagon train to avoid capture.

While undercover, "Bad" Bascomb's heart is stolen by pure love and trust from an 8 year old girl who l-o-v-e-s him without reservation and in spite of his coarseness and even cruelty.

The transformation is amazing to watch. Beery and O'Brien steal every scene and leave you anxious for their next one. Their banter is at times hilarious yet still remains poignant.

I understand the criticism of some of the action sequences. They seem hurried if not careless. The scene of the wagon train crossing the river, however, is excellent. This is a low budget programmer so I refuse to criticize a lot of the technical short comings. As is true of most of these low budget films, this one is elevated by the performances of unmatched character actors like Marjorie Maine, J. Carroll Naish, and Sarah Haden. In the end though, Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien will steal your heart forever.

7cutter-12

A Charmer

By all accounts, Wallace Beery was a coarse and miserable A-hole off camera. It's no surprise the man lacked refinement, just look at him, but I hope he wasn't quite the jerk biographers have painted him since his death in 1949. I've always enjoyed watching Wallace Beery movies, if his personality was something less than desirable in real life you'd never know it from many of his films, where the man is just simply...lovable. And if it was only that way on screen, then that's all that really matters I guess. Beery played a persona that made him a good living, and he always delivered the goods once the cameras rolled.

In Bad Bascomb, Beery is hilarious. He spits as many mouthfuls of funny dialogue as he spits his food. He also shows himself to have been a far better actor than he's remembered for as he emotes menace, sweetness, redemption and morosity with his craggy mug as good as any actor of his day. I defy anyone to dislike Beery in this film.

The movie itself is at times unbalanced...moves between a children's film and a more conventional western, with all its back shooting nastiness, a little unseamlessly. But it was all shot outdoors on location and as Wagon Train movies go, this one has a fairly authentic look to it.

Maybe not a great western, but it's great fun to watch Beery and Margaret O'Brien play off each other. The kind of sweetness reminiscent of Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood in Miracle in the 34th Street. One of Beery's must see roles. Well worth your time if you come across it on TCM.

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Trivia
According to page 70 of "Notes For A Memoir", Janet Jeppson, second wife of Isaac Asimov, describes how she was acting as an extra in this movie on August 14, 1945, when Wallace Beery came out of his trailer to tell everyone on site that World War II had been declared over.

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Bascomb said that he didn't want anything to do with marriage. But in one scene with Margaret O'Brien one can see Beery's wedding ring.

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Zeb Bascomb: [after finding Emmy alone outside of camp] Why, Emmy.
Emmy: Go away, Zeke. Don't you dare touch me.
Zeb Bascomb: How do you know it's Zeke, honey? Why, you ain't even looked.
Emmy: I don't want to look. I don't want to ever see you. I just want to die.
Zeb Bascomb: That ain't no nice way to talk after all the trouble I had finding you. What made you skip out?
[He leans down to touch her]
Emmy: [Emmy turns with a shotgun] I'll shoot!
Zeb Bascomb: Well, I guess, ain't no use in asking for mercy once a woman's got her mind made up. I did think you had more feeling for me though.
Emmy: You said I was stealing and it ain't true.
Zeb Bascomb: Well, I know. I was wrong, I'm sorry.
Emmy: You were going to give me a belt in the snoot.
Zeb Bascomb: Well, I thought you knew that I was just testin' ya.
Emmy: What's testin'?
Zeb Bascomb: Seein' if you love me.
Emmy: Were you testin' when you pushed me and said you wanted me to catch the measles?
Zeb Bascomb: That is my number one test. Measles couldn't even light on you, you're too wiggly.
Emmy: You care for anybody special, Zeke?
Zeb Bascomb: What difference does it make? I ain't got long to live anyway.
Emmy: Maybe I won't shoot ya.
Zeb Bascomb: Well, what you got to do, you got to do.
Emmy: I don't know how to work this very good anyway.
[Hands him the shotgun]
Zeb Bascomb: You sure could have fooled me, alright.
Emmy: Would you have took the ring if grandma had give it to ya?
Zeb Bascomb: Why should I?
Emmy: She likes you. Why do you play cruel all the time?
Zeb Bascomb: Oh, why do you poison gophers?
Emmy: Will you marry her?
Zeb Bascomb: Now I know you're sick.
Emmy: Just sort of look after her. I may not always be around.
Zeb Bascomb: Yes, yes, you... You are gettin' mighty old. Mighty old. I kind of thought though that you was waiting for me.
Emmy: You wouldn't want a wart.
Zeb Bascomb: Didn't you know that I meant just the opposite?
Emmy: What's the opposite to a wart?
Zeb Bascomb: The op... It's a dimple, a pretty little dimple.
Emmy: A dimple?
Zeb Bascomb: Mm-hmm.
Emmy: You mean I'm a dimple?
Zeb Bascomb: That's right.
Emmy: I like that.
Zeb Bascomb: Sure.