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Written by James M. Tate / 3/12/2022 / No comments / edgar buchanan , fifties , jack elam , jacques tourneur , joel mccrea , john smith , lloyd bridges , peter graves , robert wilke , sam peckinpah , wallace ford , warner archives , western

DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'WITCHITA' STARRING JOEL MCCREA

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCAJt2qWOCh27p8cS7U6E_SjJbANwpihQUA1ckhRe4Yy0kU8CJWzBWkTUg9JYC0t5Jc79WOYOLPgiE-ReonBNu3q9gJDk3Vb1Yf6lFWjVRsS4OWJV4N_rB5gzgj_lTSdEMkzt5WTX16d6Ie5tHanozdApRrvmx-g5Fs9St1nP6sNMRORqI9pG3sZNnDQ=s1181" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCAJt2qWOCh27p8cS7U6E_SjJbANwpihQUA1ckhRe4Yy0kU8CJWzBWkTUg9JYC0t5Jc79WOYOLPgiE-ReonBNu3q9gJDk3Vb1Yf6lFWjVRsS4OWJV4N_rB5gzgj_lTSdEMkzt5WTX16d6Ie5tHanozdApRrvmx-g5Fs9St1nP6sNMRORqI9pG3sZNnDQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WICHITA Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This Jacques Tourneur's Western is as basic and entertaining as they come, centering on what begins as a distant dot viewed by men camped on the plain surrounded by cattle and all on their slow, deliberate pace to that Promised Land of WICHITA harboring many saloons...<br>
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That dot nears, and turns out being buffalo hunter Wyatt Earp, played by Joel McCrea, visually perfectly suited (though too old) for the real life legendary lawman, at first reluctant to become Wichita's Sheriff until the rowdy cowboys ignite drunken gun-blazing pandemonium...</p><span></span>

edgar buchanan, fifties, jack elam, jacques tourneur, joel mccrea, john smith, lloyd bridges, peter graves, robert wilke, sam peckinpah, wallace ford, warner archives, western

DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'WITCHITA' STARRING JOEL MCCREA

Title: WICHITA Year: 1955 Rating: **** This Jacques Tourneur's Western is as basic and entertaining as they come, centering on what beg...

RAOUL WALSH REMAKES 'HIGH SIERRA' WITH 'COLORADO TERRITORY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1MafS0mlp22qhXfWM6HIkUoBssSTnJiDAmzbVGHvF8qnF19Z1xNHF5Mjzr8w2AyGXUaK6FmKdG1ev6fxyLVc7TqhDkZStCvKiopYjQTbUffnTTFKUu3P9xe1bwqOUoxTw2JyZiUqgMY2ApuHyV47t6-Uv3eG0bB6omqLtUKHCs8GvfzcJjWC3bQLwcw=s1144" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1MafS0mlp22qhXfWM6HIkUoBssSTnJiDAmzbVGHvF8qnF19Z1xNHF5Mjzr8w2AyGXUaK6FmKdG1ev6fxyLVc7TqhDkZStCvKiopYjQTbUffnTTFKUu3P9xe1bwqOUoxTw2JyZiUqgMY2ApuHyV47t6-Uv3eG0bB6omqLtUKHCs8GvfzcJjWC3bQLwcw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: COLORADO TERRITORY Year: 1949 Rating: *1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Raoul Walsh directed the Western remake of his classic "modern" noir (yet set in a Western-like exterior setting) HIGH SIERRA, titled COLORADO TERRITORY, starring Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo in place of Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino, and with Dorothy Malone replacing Joan Leslie, here's proof that not all capable formula's work twice...<br></p><p></p><p>Unlike Bogart's cool and edgy Roy Earle, a hopelessly benign Joel McCrea's Wes McQueen lacks the anti-hero of his once-outlaw hero, wanting nothing of the pivotal heist that each film centers on, and here, with a cliché dream of owning his own ranch, he's so adverse to his fellow outlaws he's supposed to mentor, the entire purpose is chalked down to a lackadaisical melodrama with long bouts of dialogue — superfluous distraction in place of of essential action...  </p><p><span></span></p>

dorothy malone, forties, ian wolfe, joel mccrea, raoul walsh, remake, virginia mayo, warner archives, western

RAOUL WALSH REMAKES 'HIGH SIERRA' WITH 'COLORADO TERRITORY'

Title: COLORADO TERRITORY Year: 1949 Rating: *1/2 Raoul Walsh directed the Western remake of his classic "modern" noir (yet set in...

KING KONG'S SISTER PRODUCTION 'THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME'

action, adventure, cult, ernest schoedsack, fay wray, joel mccrea, leslie banks, merian cooper, noble johnson, robert armstrong, thirties

KING KONG'S SISTER PRODUCTION 'THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME'

The opening credit doorknob in Most Dangerous Game Year: 1933 Based a short story by Richard Connell, the GAME template has been used m...

ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

action, adventure, alfred hitchcock, espionage, forties, george sanders, joel mccrea, laraine day, martin kosleck, war, world war II

ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

Formerly doubled w/ Berlin Correspondent Foreign YEAR: 1940 Instead of gentle giant Gary Cooper, who was director Alfred Hitchock'...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

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The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preacher, played by Joel McCrea as Josiah Grey, pulls out his six-shooters in a noisy saloon before reading the Bible in that same, suddenly quiet one...<br>
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This during a through-narration by an off-screen adult version of child actor Dean Stockwell, who plays the orphan son, John. And about fifteen minutes in, the town's old, dying doctor asks Josiah if he remembers what he and the audience could never forget... That should have been repeated a few times — his <i>thing</i>, as it were, in acquiring a captive audience at gun point...<br>
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Although as blunt as Reverend Josiah is, there's a passive, non-violent streak despite having fought through the Civil War... side-by-side with rowdy atheist Alan Hale, whose giant eldest son is future GUNSMOKE star James Arness)... which gives McCrea half a dozen stories to tell within pockets of rural lakeside scenery that director Jacques Tourneur serves throughout a creative camera that enters and exits locations, along with the townspeople who, themselves, are the sole plot, or intentional lack of. Anyone looking for shades of the action-packed WICHITA, the actor and director's third, final and greatest Western collaboration, will be disappointed (STRANGER ON HORSEBACK lies in-between). This small town's viewed with an optimistic revere of lost youth, but not without deep shades of Tourneur's signature dark and Gothic undertones...<br>

amanda blake, dean stockwell., fifties, jacques tourneur, james arness, joel mccrea, melodrama, religious, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950 The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preach...

'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' HAS RELOCATED

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