Angel and the Badman

The doctor at one point mentions "living in a never never land," an obvious reference to Peter Pan.

However, the play did not see its first performance in London until 1904, and the novel was not published until 1911.

There is no way anyone living on the 19th-century American frontier could know of Peter Pan's home.

In the next to the last scene in the movie where the Marshal (Harry Carey) shoots Hondo and Laredo, he kills them with two rapid shots before they can shoot.

In the reverse it shows the Marshal cocking his lever action rifle.

It would be impossible to fire two shots so rapidly if you had to lever the rifle between shots.

When Quirt pushes between the men at the bar, the bartender pours him a drink and then leaves.

The owner then arrives asking for some calm.

As Quirt leaves the bar, the bar owner can be heard from behind the Baker brothers still imploring them not to fight, but it is the bartender who can be seen.

A dance hall girl pushes a spectator down onto a gambling table which collapses under him, with the only damage being to the legs of the table.

In the next shot, the table is still collapsed but there is a large section of the edge broken off.

When walking down the street for the final showdown, the sun starts off to Quirt's right casting shadows to the left of screen, then a close shot shows shadows which could only come from a near-overhead sun, and then at the saloon the sun is coming from Quirt's left casting shadows to the right.

When Quirt arrives at the saloon, its entrance is in shadow.

When Hondo and Laredo come out, they are in full sun.

The small bag of gold double eagles is thrown to Quirt at the beginning.

Gold at the time was $20 a troy ounce and would have consisted of 250 coins.

At 14 ounces to the pound, it would have weighed 187.

5 pounds, not the mere few pounds the few silver dollars it likely contained.

When Penny wheels the wagon around to pick up Quirt at the beginning of the movie, you can see an extra set of reins coming out of a small "window" that is visible below the wagon seat where the actual wagon driver (the stunt driver) is controlling the team of horses.

Angel and The Badman is a quaint romantic western with a predictable story, but in this case it really works. The film is a perfect blend of an extremely ruthless gunslinger being tamed by the highly moral Quakers.

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Two kinds of people need to see this movie: People who love John Wayne movies full-stop, and people who think they know what a successful John Wayne movie is all about."Angel And The Badman" is the kind of western that plays with your expectations.

John Wayne will get a lot of bad reviews because his characters were pretty much all cast out of the same mold. But before you can remold, you need to make the mold.

Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy.He is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth a quaker girl.

Very different John Wayne film. A romantic western, if you will.

Quirt Evans (John Wayne), famoso pistolero del Salvaje Oeste, cae de su caballo cuando se alejaba a galope de un tiroteo en el que ha estado implicado, haciéndolo delante de una familia de cuáqueros que pasaba por allí, los cuales haciendo caso omiso de las advertencias de vecinos y amigos, lo acogen en su casa, lo curan, y lo tratan con la amistad y cariño que parece ser les aconseja su religión, estancia durante la cual sucumbe a los encantos de Penelope (Gail Russell), la hija de los cuáqueros que sintió un flechazo desde el mismo instante que le acogió en su regazo recién caído del caballo, y a las muestras de cariño y atención del resto de la familia.Escrita y dirigida por James Edward Grant (antiguo periodista responsable de la escritura de un buen puñado de films de diferente enjundia durante más de 30 años, y con solo esta y otra película como director), y primera película producida por el Duke, estamos ante un western atípico, en el que partiendo de una premisa tan canoníca en el género como es la del pistolero herido acogido por una familia buena y humilde que una vez curado se deja el alma por sus benefactores, la trama gira alrededor de la historia romántica entre pistolero e hija de cuáqueros, ya que sin abandonar en cierto modo esa defensa de la familia (al fin y al cabo les consigue agua de un huraño vecino que gracias a los manejos de Wayne acaba convertido en vecino ejemplar), estamos ante un buen, entretenido y divertido western romántico, en el que los ladridos de los revólveres son sustituidos por algún que otro tenso dialogo con los malos (alguna escena de tiroteos haberlas, haylas, y hasta estampidas), y John Wayne sorprende primero, y es toda una delicia después, con ese personaje enamorado salvado por la campana de volver a tirar de revolver.

Now this is certainly one of the more characterful roles played by John Wayne. His portrayal of all-round bad egg "Quirt Evans" is mean and moody - if a little wooden at first.

This is a quiet western ;there's violence in the first pictures (close shot of a revolver) and towards the end but this is a true story of redemption.These quaker family is some kind of heaven where you can eat the best donuts in the world and their influence radiates on the others : take the scene of the water ;we expect a fight between Wayne and the selfish old man ;but it is not so: not only he lets the waters flow ,but when he comes to his neighbor's farm,the good mom presents him with baskets of food.