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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am on record as being willing to see Tom Hanks play any role, even stranded on a desert island talking to a volleyball.\u00a0 But this is certainly one of his most compelling performances.\u00a0 I am hoping he will be nominated again for an Academy Award.\u00a0 In many ways, this is a film for our times. Captain Kidd is a man who has fought in the Civil War, and come home to Texas to find the world upside down and full of anger, dysfunction, and even a cholera epidemic.\u00a0 Does this sound familiar?\u00a0 The times are coarse and brutal and there are brutal men running a good deal of Texas where he lives, by Captain Kidd is no such person. In fact, he makes his living by riding from town to town reading the news from all over world to captive audiences, who have either no time or no ability to read, but are hungry for stories.\u00a0 Kidd had been a preacher before he became a soldier, and and his whole world is about to change when he finds a lost girl, born into a German family in Castroville, but captured by Kiowa Indians, and raised by them.\u00a0 She has exactly no English, a little German, and mostly Kiowa.\u00a0 This movie does not sugar coat the atrocities perpetrated against Indians, and in revenge against settlers in Texas, and racism against blacks and Hispanics is on display as well.\u00a0 There will be blood.\u00a0 In the midst of all that, there is some milk of human kindness, some compassion, some attempt at being civilized.\u00a0 And Kidd is the epitome of all that. Newcomer Helena Zengel is simply excellent as the little girl lost, part Indian, part confused, but sharp as a tack.\u00a0 The only thing upsetting about this movie is that it was over inside of two hours.\u00a0 Though there is some violence in this movie, this Western is no \u2018shoot \u2019em up bang bang\u2019.\u00a0 This is not Unforgiven or High Noon.\u00a0 You immediately care about the two central characters and the entire film focuses on their trials, tribulations, and triumphs.\u00a0 It is a compelling story of rescue and redemption.\u00a0 I commend it to you if you still have an operating movie theater.\u00a0 You will want to see this on the big screen\u2014- Texas is big screen country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I am on record as being willing to see Tom Hanks play any role, even stranded on a desert island talking to a volleyball.\u00a0 But this is certainly one of his most compelling 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