Hi Stumpy,
You've got yourself great entertaiment as it seems. I haven't watched all of the movies you ordered, but from what I know I can say that young Mr.Linkoln is a great Ford move, beautiful in black and white with fine moods, great moments and brilliant work of Henry Fonda. I always love Ford but I had some predugeses(it's wrong spelling but I forget how to write this word righ sorry) against this film, because I didn't think before that Linkoln biography can interest me much, so I bought it only when it became cheap and simple - when it was released here in Russia. And I just loved the movie. And it was so big impression that I even bought Linkoln biography while my last stay in Paris. So this I highly recommend.
I like Gary Cooper movies from your list too. But it is no comparison to Ford of course. Two of them are light comedies - The Ball of Fire (Hawks by the way and with nice paring with Barbara Stanwyk). Casanova Brown is funny too. I heard opinions that both comedies are rather silly but I enjoyed them very much.
Unconqured is a big Cecil de Mille prodation very artifishial as his movies always are but for me entertaining and enjoyable. After all I like Coop there.
Distant Drums and Court-M. of Billy Mitchel are always considered as rather weak movies but to my opinion they are interesting.
I also watched almost all Randolf Scott movies from your list exept Albucerque I guess, they all are typical Randolf Scott's of that period. I enjoy them, but they are B-westerns I think. But I like his person on screen so I like this movies. But 7 Man from now is much better then them.
As for Jezabel with Betty Davis (it is mainly her film not Fonda's) I have mixed impression. I think that the film and her performance is pretending (if you understand what I mean). I don't quite like pretending movies.
That is all I can say on this matter.
Regards,
Vera
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