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Tuesday, Apr 12, 1994
Until They Get Me
"(Borzage's) earliest surviving films as a director are Westerns. These films...show an unusual attention to female characters and a frequent obsession with delivering them from moral rejection or masculine mistreatment. Until They Get Me introduces the 'moppet who becomes a desirable woman' character that Janet Gaynor will play in the later romances. Pauline Starke's irresistible tomboy Margy supplies the moral authority for the film, helping the unjustly accused fugitive to escape from her Mountie boyfriend....Borzage's Westerns...which maintained a space for a feminine authority and subjectivity...remind us that the masculinization of the genre was a gradual process." (Tom Gunning) "A rare pearl, without a doubt one of the most beautiful gems of the genre made in the teens, with flashes of raw poetry and charged eroticism the likes of which we will not find until the works of King Vidor or Nicholas Ray." (Hervé Dumont)
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