“They certainly remind us of the optimism, innocence and joy with which America has gladdened the world since the big screen’s inception.” And yet … “Good must triumph over evil, and this may require the best efforts of American heroes. As frontiersmen or their descendants, these heroes aren’t required to stand on ceremony. The faint-hearts and surrender-monkeys of the old world may get side-tracked by scruples; but that isn’t the American way.”