From my same era too. I always enjoyed the good guy wearing the white hat riding off into the sunset with the rescued girl and beating the bad guy wearing the black hat and the type of message that was sent watching those type of movies. Stories that had a moral message to them. They taught us that good was always the best way to go and that evil was not the good guy in any sense of the word. American culture has lost its way. It lost its moral compass.
Back in those days, going to the movies was an enjoyable experience. The only time it wasn’t was if the movie you saw was boring. It was a rare movie back then that bored me. Today,movies go beyond boring. They are nauseating. And you pay a steep price to be bored and nauseated.