Cubs fans participating in an online forum, BCB After Dark, recently voted on a potential starting pitcher for the team’s first-round playoff series. The majority, 57 percent, favored Matthew Boyd, while 28 percent chose David Peterson.
The forum also featured a discussion of music and film. The host highlighted a 1963 collaboration between John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, performing “In A Sentimental Mood,” noting Coltrane’s display of a softer side to his saxophone playing. The piece features Aaron Bell on bass and Elvin Jones on drums.
Regarding film, the host reviewed the 1940 Western *Santa Fe Trail*, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, and Raymond Massey. The reviewer deemed the film “terrible,” “bad history,” and “racist to the core,” criticizing its inaccurate portrayal of historical events and its weak plot. The film, despite its title, is described as a Civil War movie set in Bleeding Kansas, focusing on the exploits of James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart (Flynn) and George Armstrong Custer. The reviewer points out that the two generals never met in real life and that the film takes liberties with historical timelines.
Van Heflin plays Carl Rader, a cadet expelled from West Point for distributing abolitionist literature, who later joins John Brown (Massey) in Kansas. The film also features a subplot involving Kit Carson Holliday (de Havilland) and the romantic attention of both Stuart and Custer.
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