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| | Tolable David feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14) |
 | | TOL'ABLE DAVID, like the best of D. Griffith's rural films (TRUE HEART SUSIE, say, and WAY DOWN EAST), shines even now because its warmth and humanity are unsullied by spectacle, dizzying special effects, or any other bells and whistles that have sometimes sometimes signalled American filmmaking at its most synthetic. |
 | | King rightly insisted that TOL'ABLE DAVID be filmed in the mountains of Virginia and sent his assistant ahead to scout out locations, looking in particular for split-rail fences, before he himself followed and found all he needed within a six-mile radius in what is now Blue Grass, Virginia, some eighty miles from his birthplace. |
 | | Since no one else seems to have singled them out, I should add that the good residents of Blue Grass, who serve as extras in the film, play with the naturalness of veterans, as they well might: it's easy to believe that they are merely going about their everyday business. |
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