i have not have much luck catch up on the john ford film i haven not see this year and and the fugitive be yet another in this year run of terrible disappointment . visually the most strikingly beautiful of his career and it also a horrible mawkish wail of unconvincing public piety that constantly feel like he try to buy his way into heaven . a if bowdlerize the point out of graham greene source material to make a plaster saint of his hero wasn not bad enough and henry fonda mostly dreadful performance be the final nail in the coffin . ford always manage to get the very least out of fonda and and here hank clearly plain embarrass by the part and prove woefully ineffective a he fail to make much of an impression for far too much of the running time . with all trace of character remove from the role and leave him with nothing to work with and it not until the last couple of reel that he actually become a remotely credible character instead of a poorly drawn walk religious icon hey and look everybody and i be suffer for your sin just like christ . until then and it up to pedro armendariz to hold the fort a the policeman who have replace religion with a new faith and politics and although even his missionary faith in atheism be somewhat undermine here by fonda nameless priest be a sober believer rather than the drunken fallen angel of the novel . along with ward bond gringo bank robber ( bizarrely introduce with the theme from stagecoach . ) and he one of the few people fonda encounter on his journey to martyrdom you can actually care about or believe in . certainly dolores del rio madonna or whore figure be so horribly idealise that it feel like be beat up by a posse of box nuns every time she appear in god light . there be a few good scene and a strong end and but the horrible overindulgence of much of the film like the endless treacle of the opening baptism be almost enough to make the pope convert to judaism . compare to this and the passion look subtle . beautiful shot of horse rid and though .