May 26 movie: Pittsburgh. This seems to be considered a lesser John Wayne movie, and it probably is, but I love it anyway. Wayne and Randolph Scott star as ambitious coal miners who rise to the top, fall, then rise again. All the while competing for the affections of Marlene Deitrich. Structurally it kind of reminded me of that movie with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy as oil wildcatters. What was that movie called? Oh right, Boom Town. Except that Boom Town was made before the war, whlle Pittsburgh has that hyper-patriotic wartime thing going on.
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