My DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)



Randwick Ritz, Sydney:
12:45 PM
Friday May 02

10:30 AM 
Saturday May 03

Lido Cinemas, Melbourne:
10:30 AM
Saturday May 10

11:00 AM
Monday May 12

Rating: PG
Duration: 98 minutes
Country: USA 
Language: English  
Cast: : Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs
Director: John Ford

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“Possibly the finest drama in the western genre …it achieves near-perfection in its cinematography and editing” – Michael Mann

Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp in a unique, loosely adapted, biographical Western that foregrounds the tender side of those embroiled in a revenge plot that takes backstage until the film’s final moments. My Darling Clementine follows Wyatt who is led astray from his trip across the country with his brothers after one of them is killed and their cattle are stolen. Quickly taking up the role of Marshall in the lawless town of Tombstone to avenge his brother, he encounters unlikely comrades, enemies, romance, and develops an affinity for the town in flux. Despite being labelled an ‘anti-western’ by some, it still tells a mythical tale of conflicted virtues. Framed in black and white cinematography that reveals both the atmosphere's harsh reality and a sensitive romantic naivety, the film emerges from the most moving of quotidian moments.

Introduced by Ivan Cerecina at Ritz Cinemas and Zac Tomé at Lido Cinemas.

“A poetic movie about good and evil that rings true to the myths and aspirations of the west that the genre symbolised, celebrated and came to criticise.” - Philip French

“Ford’s work attains a harmony rare in American studio filmmaking, its topical and cinematic breadth at once intimately sketched and historically attuned to the passage of time and its accumulated gravitas.” - Jordan Cronk


THE RESTORATION
Source: DCP Disney, Australia

4K digital restoration of the theatrical release version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Director: John Ford; Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox; Producer: Samuel G Engel; Script: Samuel G Engel, Winston Miller, Sam Hellman based on Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) by Stuart N Lake; Photography: Joseph MacDonald; Editor: Dorothy Spencer; Art Direction: James Basevi, Lyle Wheeler; Set Decoration: Thomas Little; Costume Design: René Hubert; Music: Cyril Mockridge

Cast: Henry Fonda  (Wyatt Earp), Linda Darnell (Chihuahua), Victor Mature (Doc Holliday), Cathy Downs (Clementine Carter), Walter Brennan (Old Man Clanton), Tim Holt (Virgil Earp), Ward Bond (Morgan Earp), Alan Mowbray (Granville Thorndyke), John Ireland (Billy Clanton)

USA | 1946 | 98 Mins | 4K DCP | B&W| English | PG

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