this must owe something to twain's "huckleberry finn" you might also want to check out the film "wilde" (the beginning, thereof) for more of the same - ben Yes - It's My Darling Clementine. Some kind of traveling show is going through town - mostly dancehall girls - but one broken down old legitimate actor who can recite the classics. Michael Bowen > From: Scott Andrew Hutchins <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:28:46 -0500 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Shakespearean actor in Western bar > > I saw a black and white Western several years ago that had a Shakespearean > actor in a bar get on the table and recite the "To be or not to be" soliloquy > from _Hamlet_. I think it might have been _My Darling Clementine_, but I > can't think how that fit in with the rest of the film. Is my ID right? If > not, what is it? > > Scott Andrew Hutchins > [log in to unmask] > > Examine The Life of Timon of Athens at Cracks in the Fourth Wall > Theatre & Filmworks > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh > > "But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and > stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice > and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all...why then perhaps we > *must* stand fast a little--even at the risk of being heroes." --Sir Thomas > More, _A Man for All Seasons_, by Robert Bolt > > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]