In the movie western Will Penny (1968), Charlton Heston’s title character, an ageing cowboy, is thrown together with a young woman who has taken possession of the crude cabin he is to occupy while watching over the far reaches of his employer’s huge cattle ranch. When Will arrives at the cabin for his winter sojourn, Catherine, his squatter, has already taken up residence. But it’s gelid outside; Will can’t just turn her out into the cold. So they share the cabin, and in short order an attachment develops. When Catherine suggests it, Will considers taking up with her to go out West and homestead. But given their difference in age, Will doesn’t see how it can work, and he laments: “It's just a case of too soon old and too late smart.” Of all his films, Penny was Heston’s personal favorite. The bond between Will and Catherine is poignant. But Will ends it and rides off to continue his life as a lonely cowhand. Is he “too late...(Read Full Article)