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Re: Crime Does Not Pay 127

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Andrew999

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Re: Crime Does Not Pay 127
« on: April 06, 2020, 04:30:01 AM »

As a wild west buff, I enjoyed the Harry Tracy story which stayed pretty close to the truth and works well as a picture story.

It's odd that Harry is not as well known as others like Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and so on - Harry was as hard as they come:

"In all the criminal lore of the country there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation and thirst for crime. Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday school teacher" = Wiki

He was a member of the '27' club, dying all too young.

In the movie Last of the Wild Bunch, Bruce Dern produced a remarkably sensitive portrait that suggested like many outlaws, Harry was a product of his time and place and could have been a different and better person had things been different

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The Australian Panther

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Re: Crime Does Not Pay 127
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2020, 08:29:11 AM »

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In the movie Last of the Wild Bunch, Bruce Dern produced a remarkably sensitive portrait 

For me, Bruce Dern [The only man who ever shot and killed John Wayne on screen - and in the back] is an actor's actor. I have always believed that Bruce Dern, rather than Jack Nicholson, should have been cast as the Joker
I haven't seen this film but I am going to have to track it down now.

Cheers!   
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SuperScrounge

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Re: Crime Does Not Pay 127
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2020, 10:24:57 AM »


"In all the criminal lore of the country there is no record equal to that of Harry Tracy for cold-blooded nerve, desperation and thirst for crime. Jesse James, compared with Tracy, is a Sunday school teacher" = Wiki

He was a member of the '27' club, dying all too young.


Bad as he sounds, I'd say he died too old.  ;)
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