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As I said when I uploaded a rather decent radio adaptation of SHANE, Westerns are also adventure stories and very often they tell stories that transcend their setting and can be retold in a thousand other places and times. THE SEARCHERS is a more morally complicated story than SHANE, however...
The cast of this play includes Kerry Shale - one of the busiest American accents in British radio and television - but also William Hope. While not super-famous, he is legendary if only for his part in the sci-fi classic Aliens, where he played the ostensibly unsympathetic Lieutenant Gorman. I say 'unsympathetic' - repeated viewings show that Hope gives a rather interesting and nuanced performance as a man who does badly at first but then adapts and proves himself. In early scenes he plays Lieutenant Gorman as somebody who wants to be seen as tough, delivering some of his lines in a sort of faux-John Wayne style. How appropriate, then, that all these years later he should find himself taking over from Wayne himself in the lead role of this adaptation of a book that was turned into one of Wayne's most famous films...
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15 сен 2024
