genre the hanging tree
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay - rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water . They are characterized by steep slopes , minimal vegetation , lack of a substantial regolith , and high drainage density . They can resemble malpaís , a terrain of volcanic ___MASK75___ . Canyons , ravines , gullies , buttes , mesas , hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands . They are often difficult to navigate by foot . Badlands often have a spectacular color display that alternates from dark black / blue coal stria to bright clays to red scoria . General George Smith Patton Jr . ( November 11 , 1885  December 21 , 1945 ) was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U . S . Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World ___MASK43___ II , but is best known for his leadership of the U . S . Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 . The Last Bridge is a 1954 Austrian ___MASK43___ ___MASK1___ film directed by Helmut Käutner . It tells the story of a German nurse who is sent to the front as a punishment for tending a wounded Yugoslav soldier . The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival . Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands , savannas , and shrublands biome by ecologists , based on similar temperate climates , moderate rainfall , and a composition of grasses , herbs , and shrubs , rather than trees , as the dominant vegetation type . Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina , southern Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia . Lands typically referred to as " prairie " tend to be in North America . The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of Canada , the United States , and Mexico , which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter , somewhat hillier land to the east . In the U . S ., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas , and Oklahoma , and sizable parts of the states of Montana , Wyoming , Colorado , New Mexico , Texas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Ohio , Indiana , Wisconsin , and ___MASK78___ and southern Minnesota . The Central Valley of California is also a prairie . The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba , Saskatchewan , and Alberta . One - Eyed Jacks is a 1961 ___MASK78___ film directed by Marlon Brando ; it was the first and only film directed by him . It was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah , but studio disputes led to their replacement by Brando and Guy Trosper . Brando portrays the lead character Rio , and Karl Malden plays his partner , " Dad " Longworth . The supporting cast features Katy Jurado , Ben Johnson , and Slim Pickens . Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the ___MASK78___ United States . The state is the tenth largest by area , the least populous and the second least densely populated state in the country . Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana , on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska , on the south by Colorado , on the southwest by Utah , and on the west by Idaho . Cheyenne is the capital and the most populous city in Wyoming , with a population estimate of 63 , 335 in 2015 . The state population was estimated at 586 , 107 in 2015 , which is less than the population of 31 of the largest U . S . cities . Helmut Käutner ( born 25 ___MASK19___ 1908 in Düsseldorf , Germany ; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti , Italy ) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s . He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany . Clive Stanley Donner ( 21 January 1926  6 September 2010 ) was a British film director who was a defining part of the British ___MASK69___ , directing films such as " The Caretaker ", " Nothing But the Best ", " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush " and " What ' s New Pussycat ?". He also directed television movies and commercials through the mid - 1990s . Charles Davenport Champlin ( ___MASK19___ 23 , 1926  November 16 , 2014 ) was an American film critic and writer . On the Waterfront is a 1954 American ___MASK31___ ___MASK1___ film with elements of ___MASK61___ . The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg . It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden , Lee J . Cobb , Rod Steiger , Pat Henning , and , in her film debut , Eva Marie Saint . The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein . The film was suggested by " Crime on the Waterfront " by Malcolm Johnson , a series of articles published in November - December 1948 in the " New York Sun " which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting , but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story . The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption , extortion , and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken , New Jersey . Karl Malden ( born Mladen George Sekulovich ___MASK19___ 22 , 1912  July 1 , 2009 ) was an American actor . Malden was primarily a character actor who " for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in ___MASK94___ , film and ___MASK47___ ", especially in such classic films as " A Streetcar Named Desire " ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), " On the Waterfront ", " Pollyanna ", and " One - Eyed Jacks ". Malden later played in high - profile Hollywood movies such as " Baby Doll ", " How the West Was Won ", and " Patton " as well as appearing on U . S . ___MASK47___ as Lt . Mike Stone on the 1970s crime ___MASK1___ , " The Streets of San Francisco " and as the spokesman for American Express . Film and culture critic Charles Champlin described Malden as " an Everyman , but one whose range moved easily up and down the levels of ___MASK49___ and the IQ scale , from heroes to heavies and ordinary , decent guys just trying to get along ", and at the time of his death Malden was described as " one of the great character actors of his time " who created a number of " powerhouse performances on screen ". Malden was also President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1992 . Maria Margarethe Anna Schell ( 15 January 1926  26 April 2005 ) was an Austrian - Swiss actress . She ranged among the stars of German cinema in the 1950s and ' 60s . In 1954 she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner ' s ___MASK43___ ___MASK1___ " The Last Bridge " and in 1956 won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for " Gervaise ". The Hanging Tree is a 1959 Technicolor film directed by Delmer Daves . Karl Malden took over directing duties for several days when Daves fell ill . The film stars Gary Cooper , Maria Schell , George C . Scott and Malden and is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and ' 70s . The story follows a doctor who saves a criminal from a lynch mob , then learns of the man ' s past and tries to manipulate him . The film was the first one for Gary Cooper ' s Baroda Productions company . This marked the first film of Scott . He and Malden later teamed for 1970 ' s Patton , for which Scott won an Academy Award . Alberta is a ___MASK78___ province of Canada . With an estimated population of 4 , 196 , 457 as of July 1 , 2015 , it is Canada ' s fourth - most populous province and the most populous of Canada ' s three prairie provinces . Its area is about . Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1 , 1905 . The premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015 . Baby Doll is a 1956 American black ___MASK53___ and ___MASK1___ film directed by Elia Kazan , and starring Carroll Baker , Karl Malden and Eli Wallach . The film also features Mildred Dunnock and Rip Torn . It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams , and adapted by Williams from his own one - act ___MASK40___ " 27 Wagons Full of Cotton ". The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi ; after one of the men commits arson against the other ' s gin , the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist ' s nineteen - year - old virgin bride with the hopes of receiving an admission by her of her husband ' s guilt . An actor ( or actress for females ; see terminology ) is a person who portrays a character in a performance . The actor performs " in the flesh " in the traditional medium of the theatre , or in modern mediums such as film , ___MASK39___ , and television . The analogous Greek term is , literally " one who answers ". The actor ' s interpretation of their role pertains to the role played , whether based on a real person or fictional character . Interpretation occurs even when the actor is " playing themselves ", as in some forms of experimental ___MASK30___ , or , more commonly ; to act , is to create , a character in performance . Stanley Kubrick ( July 26 , 1928  ___MASK19___ 7 , 1999 ) was an American film director , screenwriter , producer , cinematographer , editor , and photographer . He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic ___MASK16___ . His films , which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories , cover a wide range of genres , and are noted for their realism , dark humor , unique cinematography , extensive set designs , and evocative use of music . The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s ___MASK47___ crime ___MASK1___ filmed on location in San Francisco , California , and produced by Quinn Martin Productions , with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros . Television ( QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run ). Ebenezer Scrooge is the focal character of Charles Dickens ' 1843 ___MASK60___ , " A Christmas Carol ". At the beginning of the ___MASK60___ , Scrooge is a cold - hearted miser who despises Christmas . Dickens describes him thus : " The cold within him froze his old features , nipped his pointed nose , made his eyes red , his thin lips blue , and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice , bah humbug ." The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major mountain range in ___MASK78___ North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia , in ___MASK78___ Canada , to New Mexico , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west . A ___MASK58___ is a film with no synchronized recorded sound , especially with no spoken ___MASK86___ . The ___MASK58___ era lasted from 1895 to 1936 . In silent films for ___MASK44___ , the ___MASK86___ is transmitted through muted gestures , mime and title cards which contain a written indication of the plot or key ___MASK86___ . The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself , but because of the technical challenges involved , synchronized ___MASK86___ was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system . During silent films , a pianist , theatre organist , or , in large cities , even a small orchestra would often ___MASK40___ music to accompany the films . Pianists and organists would either ___MASK40___ from sheet music or improvise ; an orchestra would ___MASK40___ from sheet music . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures . The Academy ' s corporate ___MASK9___ and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors , which includes representatives from each of the craft branches . Montana is a state in the ___MASK78___ region of the United States . The state ' s name is derived from the Spanish word ( mountain ). Montana has several nicknames , although none official , including " Big Sky Country " and " The Treasure State ", and slogans that include " Land of the Shining Mountains " and more recently " The Last Best Place ". Montana has a border with three Canadian provinces : British Columbia , Alberta , and Saskatchewan , the only state to do so . It also borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east , Wyoming to the south , and Idaho to the west and southwest . Montana is ranked 4th in size , but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States . The ___MASK78___ third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges . Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state . In total , 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains . The eastern half of Montana is characterized by ___MASK78___ prairie terrain and badlands . Gary Cooper ( born Frank ___MASK99___ Cooper ; May 7 , 1901  May 13 , 1961 ) was an American film actor known for his natural , authentic , and understated acting style and screen performances . His career spanned thirty - five years , from 1925 to 1960 , and included leading roles in eighty - four feature films . He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood . His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women , and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres . Cooper ' s ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his appearing natural and authentic on screen . The screen persona he sustained throughout his career represented the ideal American hero . George Campbell Scott ( October 18 , 1927  September 22 , 1999 ) was an American stage and film actor , director , and producer . He was best known for his stage work , as well as his portrayal of General George S . Patton in the film " Patton ", as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick ' s " ___MASK62___ . Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ", and as Ebenezer Scrooge in Clive Donner ' s 1984 film " A Christmas Carol ".