The alchemy and mix of Bogey’s “High Sierra”and David Jansen’s”The
Fugitive”” is not so much the idiom
(film and tee vee) but its resounding stance into the Los Angeles police
department’s bureaucracy having the elasticity and open mindedness to rethink
their firing of one of their own... a killer no less, on the loose.
II
For a J. Edgar Hoover to
question his FBI agents brain waves in and of itself is like throwing a like
throwing a life preserver to Spencer Tracy in “Captain’s Courageous”.
When did the J Edgar’s look into
the mirror and review their authoritarian script and its scruples vis a vie the
whiskering of time?
“What fools we mortals be” not to engage in a soulful dialogue and reflect on whence we
came and what we become.
“Bringing up father” may
be the very mirror., The reality check of questioning judgements
about one caught up by the chain
of command’s very own. To tolerate a police chief like Charles Laughton perversely
chasing a fugitive like Frederic March thru the Parisian sewers for stealing a
loaf of bread in Hugo’s “Les Miserable” (“The phantom of the opera”) is
one thing, bu to take for granted a five
year old firing, without giving it a new look is more than self serving.
It undermines the foundation of discovery&growth. “To know is no less to feel”, is to take
a second look at the basis of what drives a rogue cop to take the “Hi
Sierra” ego trip of Bogey’s revenge.
III
To vindicate himself five years
later, in itself is incriminating the rogue cop as he believes he alone can settle the alleged persecution. Not to go
quietly.....
Ah that’s the rub..
The city that never
sleeps... a blizzard
affecting 40 million in the tri states, February 9, 2013
