Catherine McLeod

Martin Scorsese Presents REPUBLIC REDISCOVERED—over 20 rarely seen films from the storied Republic Pictures library, restored and remastered by Paramount and personally curated by Martin Scorsese. In I’ve Always Loved You an orchestral conductor engages in a merciless professional rivalry with a piano student who adores him. Republic made a rare foray into high-budget filmmaking with this 1946 prestige production containing color by Technicolor, piano solos by Arthur Rubinstein, and direction by A-lister Frank Borzage.

What to do about a suspected murderess who can't be convicted?

Jet Cosgrave has been swindled out of his father's ranch by a wicked uncle. He returns eight years later with a bunch of gunslingers headed by the psychopathic Duke Rankin, and sets about plotting his revenge. Distractions, in the comely shapes of naïve ranch girl Judy Polsen and Alice Austin, his uncle's fiancée, cannot deter Jet from the final showdown, but not before the two sides have already shed a lot of blood in dirt.