Henreid grievously miscasts himself and it's pretty weirdly paced but it redeems itself with an ending dripping with delicious tragic irony. Joan Bennett's portrayal of a gal who toes the line of a few tropes but doesn't fit neatly into any category is the other highlight.
Another movie with a lot of pacing issues that more than redeems itself with a great dark ending. A lot of the hipster lyricism actually works pretty well and whatever my beef with Maclean's unwillingness to hold a shot in a movie called Slow West he has a nice eye for landscape; I wouldn't have guessed it was shot in New Zealand.
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