Cameo Kirby

There’s an attempt at a more sophisticated storytelling here with Cameo Kirby from John Ford, but I don’t think he quite knows how to fill in the gaps, leaving a finale that feels somewhat curious mixed with thrilling at the same time.

Cameo Kirby (John Gilbert) is a gambler on a riverboat with a shady past in New Orleans. He killed a man in a quick fight that ended with Kirby shooting the man dead with a pistol and getting out of the bar by the skin of his teeth in an opening flashback s...