The CCP Thought The US Was Dead - "Not Hardly"

I’m a sucker for old Westerns. One of my favorites is the John Wayne film Big Jake, corny and predictable as it is. The plot is pretty straightforward. A gang of desperados raids the large and wealthy ranch of one Jacob McCandles, a.k.a. Big Jake. They kill a number of the workers at the ranch and carry off Big Jake’s grandson into Mexico, demanding a m…