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The Painted Hills

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The Painted Hills	comment	The Painted Hills is a movie starring canine star Lassie as Shep.Shep is the companion of a grizzled old prospector named Jonathan, who returns from the wilderness to find his partner in his current venture died, leaving behind a particularly whiny kid (Tommy), and an Obviously Evil lawyer (Taylor) in charge of the partnership. Jonathan leaves Shep behind to help Tommy before returning to the mountains, but Shep soon goes on a hunger strike to bring Tommy and Taylor to Jonathan's cabin just in time to save the prospector from dying of fever, thanks to the strange bond between dog and man. While the duo is there, they join Jonathan in panning for gold — and the prospector shows them where he'd been stashing the dust he's collected so far. Inevitably, Taylor catches Gold Fever, and murders the grizzled old guy before Shep's eyes.Shep immediately begins stalking Taylor seeking vengeance. Lots of contrivances happen along the way, but in the end justice is served, as it must be in movies like this. Afterwards, Shep is ready to die alone in the mountains, but the voice of Tommy in the distance convinces the dog to live.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the episode recap page.
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The Painted Hills / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Painted Hills / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Jonathan doesn't believe Taylor would kill him because "You don't have the guts!" Of course, later on this comes around to bite Jonathan in the hinder. Or, more accurately, push him off the cliff. Taylor even lampshades this trope at the moment Jonathan is offed. It also really bites Jonathan in the butt as he claimed Taylor didn't have the guts to shoot him.
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The Painted Hills / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Painted Hills / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Based on the amount of frost that gathers on Taylor's beard, hair, shirt, and hands, he should have died of hypothermia a long time before he falls to his death.
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The Painted Hills / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Painted Hills / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Pilot Pete quotes relevant Bible verses throughout dinner.
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The Painted Hills / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Painted Hills / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Taylor had no problems with Jonathan's murder, or trying to kill Shep once he realized the dog knew more than she let on. However he Wouldn't Hurt a Child and spares Tommy when the boy is at his mercy.
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The Painted Hills / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Painted Hills / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: How Taylor sets about getting rid of Jonathan. Initially, he set up a loose rock on a mountain ledge for Jonathan to trip on and fall off the side, but when Jonathan manages to avoid the rock, Taylor resorts to pushing him off, figuring there wouldn't be any witnesses anyway.
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The Painted Hills / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Painted Hills / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Taylor's final attempt to kill Shep off once and for all is foiled by his gun freezing solid.
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The Painted Hills / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
The Painted Hills / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Chief Bald Eagle is the first to deduce Shep's hunger strike as a Batman Gambit. Later, when the dog is poisoned, Bald Eagle cures her through holistic remedies (including what appears to be a mystical invocation around a campfire, though that may have been tradition as much as anything).
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The Painted Hills / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Painted Hills / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Taylor had Tommy at his mercy... and spared him.
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The Painted Hills / int_58edb895	type	Tonto Talk
The Painted Hills / int_58edb895	comment	Tonto Talk: The Native Americans in the film, naturally. Well, the native children, anyway; the native adults speak only their own language.
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The Painted Hills / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Painted Hills / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The reason for Taylor's sparing of Tommy when the boy is injured and at his mercy is because a single death (Jonathan's) can be construed as an accident, and Shep was supposed to die alone in the woods and never be found; but adding in Tommy's sudden death/disappearance would be much harder to explain.
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The Painted Hills / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Painted Hills / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Believe it or not, the dog does it after she's been poisoned — lying on her side, kicking up dirt, and whining loudly.
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The Painted Hills / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Painted Hills / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Taylor tries to convince Tommy that Taylor trying to kill him was all in his head. Tommy almost buys it... until Taylor lies to Pilot Pete about the amount of gold Jonathan had already uncovered.
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The Painted Hills / int_87d8ecf5	type	Literal Cliffhanger
The Painted Hills / int_87d8ecf5	comment	Literal Cliffhanger: When Taylor pushes Jonathan off the cliff, he manages to grab hold of a small bush jutting out of the cliff partway down. Jonathan manages to gasp few curses at Taylor before the bush breaks and he plunges to his death.
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The Painted Hills / int_8b3ab1ce	type	Nuclear Candle
The Painted Hills / int_8b3ab1ce	comment	Nuclear Candle: When Taylor and Tommy enter the darkened cabin where Jonathan is laid up with a fever, Taylor strikes a match that illuminates the entire room.
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The Painted Hills / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Painted Hills / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Taylor dies by falling off a cliff, the same way he killed Jonathan.
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The Painted Hills / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Painted Hills / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge of Lassie.
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The Painted Hills / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
The Painted Hills / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: When Tommy is running from Taylor after discovering Jonathan's body, he hops on his horse which is waiting in the log cabin's corral. A corral that hadn't been there up to that point in the film, and which disappears immediately after providing a temporary obstacle to Tommy's flight.
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The Painted Hills / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Painted Hills / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Pilot Pete doesn't take Tommy's claim that Taylor killed Jonathan at all seriously.
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The Painted Hills / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Painted Hills / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: By the time he takes his Karmic Death-plunge off the cliff, Taylor's hair and beard are so white with snow and ice that he looks almost exactly like Jonathan. It's not entirely clear whether or not this was intentional (the film itself never really draws attention to it) but Joel and The Bots point it out.
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The Painted Hills / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: At the start of the film, Tommy's mother worries that he "hasn't cried once" over the death of his father; but once Tommy appears on screen, the very first thing he does is burst into tears. Completely unprovoked, at that.
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The Painted Hills / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Painted Hills / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Well, growling rampage, but Shep manages to lure Taylor up the mountain where his gun freezes after going into the water and then scares him off a cliff.
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The Painted Hills / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Painted Hills / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Taylor almost seems like an okay guy, genuinely looking out for his clients' interests, but he sees that there really is gold in them thar hills, catches Gold Fever and becomes Obviously Evil.
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The Painted Hills / int_f1c860c4	type	Spider-Sense
The Painted Hills / int_f1c860c4	comment	Spider-Sense: Shep's Batman Gambit to get Tommy and Taylor to bring her to the besickened Jonathan. "Shep knew!" Tommy gasps. How did Shep know?
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