Sentences with phrase «here as a vigilante»

John Wayne, who more often played genial cowboys and dashing soldiers, plays a darker, more complex role here as a vigilante who spends years in a single - minded, relentless search for the Indians who killed his brother's family and kidnapped his niece.

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The Lanes, now a labyrinth of tapas, fruity ciders and cerebral crockery, used to be the city's slum area and it was here we learnt about Harry Cowley the chimney sweep and social activist, who created the Brighton Vigilantes and fought the fascists, as well as helping to rehouse homeless people following the war.

Far more compelling here is the Mexican story, a tale of idealism corrupted in the account of the rise and fall of the Mexican vigilante army known as the Autodefensas, in the ganster - plagued state of Michoacan.

Wan is a smart enough director to know that he shouldn't glorify the vigilante «justice» on display here, and instead presents Bacon's journey as dangerous and wrong - headed.

So, to celebrate this archetypal hero, I aim to feature here other past and contemporary writers of vigilante fiction, as well.