ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYDER serial, and then half-Cherokee killer reigniting his adult career in IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake displays his usual charismatic gusto, here as a roguish member of the Paiute tribe and the titular character in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, hunted by a posse led by generational Indian-hunter Robert Redford in the early 1900's... <br><br>Had WILLIE pitted only Blake vs Redford, cutting from hunter vs hunted, it might have been the kind of Western road movie like Robert's own posse-hunting game-changer BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID... that also had a lot of characters but only centered on what and who's really important...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry sullivan, indians, john vernon, katharine ross, robert blake, robert redford, sixties, western

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: ** Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYD...

MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s2472/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj883IzC-EiXGj4ZzV7YyjpxTJcteW9oIncE51x1ddnxlzKmiFkYcztvb8f1Ob6NwsIwnOwzejzoH8CahLGPIL0ULBAW7Vn3RwQb_0YgrFK7LXrJnnp3fgra5SagkrhXDdSBK8F_eQD7lKpKgFcQ6o1aQp22BNZEGPr4DbzEUn6D5oXFsFS0gFNL7CniBK4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%206.54.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead actors Martin Milner and George Maharis, someone winds up very physically ill and the boys have to stick around to help...<br><br>The episode where Duvall's most known is BIRDCAGE ON MY FOOT, as a heroin addict suffering violent withdrawals, using his intense method-acting realism that'd become his signature legacy... supported in a dingy apartment mainly by Maharis, who, a bad boy from the slums of New York, knows not only about addiction but the consequences... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

albert dekker, george maharis, martin milner, memorial, robert duvall, sixties, tv series, western

MEMORIAL POST OF ROBERT DUVALL IN 'ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN'

Robert Duvall in ROUTE 66: THE NEWBORN Year: 1961 Rating: **1/2 In two episodes of ROUTE 66 featuring Robert Duvall that starred both lead a...

CLINT WALKER WITH VINCENT PRICE IN 'MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DHXDTS-f721WGNysDhCx84BcOyh_p4gkBB4GrZvxKE06cnJ4s6sNK13-t-vqA1pTuQP_9u13fXp9mN3_uw9I3zTiO_7iQ2A1waAjGWPSBDOA37QuX6bekPztZIJKG4XOBY794SOOtyy_ZDaHMXwNxrJsNhYId9-BdeQA6p-iakpKfwywSmt2p3ZqskaB/s1772/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%207.07.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1772" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DHXDTS-f721WGNysDhCx84BcOyh_p4gkBB4GrZvxKE06cnJ4s6sNK13-t-vqA1pTuQP_9u13fXp9mN3_uw9I3zTiO_7iQ2A1waAjGWPSBDOA37QuX6bekPztZIJKG4XOBY794SOOtyy_ZDaHMXwNxrJsNhYId9-BdeQA6p-iakpKfwywSmt2p3ZqskaB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-21%20at%207.07.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Walker in MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opens with the kind of shoot-em-up gusto of the otherwise cliche Western, MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE stars gentle giant Clint Walker as a formerly infamous gunslinger who basically stands around inside a fort-like prison while his muscular doppelganger Mike Henry violently busts out his own gang...<br><br>What was needed in this extremely strange/offbeat 1969 Western was a prologue before the prologue: like how Clint Walker went to prison in the first place, since his character's brutal past means pretty much everything...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, beverly powers, clint walker, emile meyer, harry lauter, mike henry, paul hampton, sixties, vincent price, western

CLINT WALKER WITH VINCENT PRICE IN 'MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE'

Clint Walker in MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE Year: 1969 Rating: *** Opens with the kind of shoot-em-up gusto of the otherwise cliche Western, MORE D...

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s1738/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, flirtatious beauty Helena Carter was who Cagney was interested in even though he had a woman at home... while the opposite occurs here as her rich girl character's smitten with (and is quickly married to) gentle giant workingman Rod Cameron, despite his attraction to first-billed beauty Yvonne De Carlo...<br><br>Who owns the titular RIVER LADY river boat, personally managed by her scoundrel gambler cohort Dan Duryea... after giving Rod Cameron full control of a fledgling lumber mill: the main story that should have been secondary given Duryea's usual penchant for villains, needing far more screen-time throughout an otherwise semi-effective Technicolor Western/Romance/Melodrama. <br></p>

dan duryea, dewey robinson, fifties, gambling, helena carter, jack lambert, john mcintire, lloyd gough, rod cameron, western, yvonne de carlo

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2 In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, flirtati...

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s2002/fff%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxApTo5udlQXGTsvD2kBAFYYks2ZnoVSfBGXLblU7kXTzWWlX5Z0bJnonemQFEZLjqbf4ChuIhMzGdEpT7vWRafQboSO9DA-Syuqf2pGeDFmJYrcpnw1bxpIa0taTSSeyqGmL0aRdYuBEd4_sGyGALrNo6tsVpzh4tssmwhe0CgGrzv-0fqq0UOd1ovzG8/s16000/fff%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance without thinking of Paul Newman and Robert Redford... but a decade earlier, more regular-looking Gene Evans and William Bishop played the cowboy outlaws but are secondary to Philip Carey's Brady Sutton, one of their fictional gang members who splits early on...<br><br>The main problem with so many low-budget western-potboilers is expository dialogue explaining what could have been compelling/entertaining actual content as, three years later, Carey, having been imprisoned, turns up completely unwelcome in the small town he had come from...</p><p><span></span></p>

aaron spelling, douglas kennedy, fifties, fred f. sears, gene evans, george keymas, martha hyer, philip carey, western, william bishop

PHILIP CAREY WITH AARON SPELLING IN 'WYOMING RENEGADES'

Philip Carey and Martha Hyer in WYOMING RENEGADES Year: 1956 Rating; *** It's impossible to hear about Butch Cassidy and Sundance withou...

MARA CORDAY, WILLARD PARKER & TIMOTHY CAREY 'NAKED GUN'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WL1zewqujhkG0f5AQnGewk7_180ykgod6vtGGRXRtX5481JIiWe8carT8ULjxgz1OnxETqu0mJY34euMArdd6N6M5TLb_a_XKFvCw-rZsHpmGurZQdnFYhtxxzwGUN6vM8tBXIfNtpZyWrzc76pSpbNJ79n2iJ80S1sebcIRIRNn9hMDSiE0th69_ofE/s1834/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%2011.11.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WL1zewqujhkG0f5AQnGewk7_180ykgod6vtGGRXRtX5481JIiWe8carT8ULjxgz1OnxETqu0mJY34euMArdd6N6M5TLb_a_XKFvCw-rZsHpmGurZQdnFYhtxxzwGUN6vM8tBXIfNtpZyWrzc76pSpbNJ79n2iJ80S1sebcIRIRNn9hMDSiE0th69_ofE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%2011.11.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NAKED GUN Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before becoming the theatrical franchise for POLICE SQUAD, the title NAKED GUN referred to a b-Western where the first half sets up expository dialogue involving the characters in a small, dangerous town that mainly consists of a jailhouse and saloon indoors, and a hanging square outside, are part of some kind of curse... <br></p><p></p><p>Involving a plot-line that becomes clear over halfway through: as token stranger Willard Parker was sent to return a stolen chestful of jewels to the rightful owner, a Spanish woman long dead,  survived by an adult daughter...</p><p><span></span></p>

billy house, fifties, jody mccrea, mara corday, post-heist, timothy carey, tom brown, veda ann borg, western, willard parker

MARA CORDAY, WILLARD PARKER & TIMOTHY CAREY 'NAKED GUN'

Title: NAKED GUN Year: 1956 Rating: *** Before becoming the theatrical franchise for POLICE SQUAD, the title NAKED GUN referred to a b-Weste...

GENE BARRY IN SAMUEL FULLER'S NOIRISH WESTERN 'FORTY GUNS'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT24G5Ge62fRJnBFGWSddENUKeSf6Jl9jkH-0cLIrul1AuBhqfuYp-g3PuktNizZ3aD1xTWEX7a1RaS30lrWBYDaVNk0T0Lqqaj79ulYy1EKVy2hyoBfX1g2IHxJ3SRQ3NkJ85fF5v86MPQtLR-V2AIQeojYe5NnTKbB8xFr-blWg1p1spol0tLZ733mQt/s1914/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-16%20at%203.54.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT24G5Ge62fRJnBFGWSddENUKeSf6Jl9jkH-0cLIrul1AuBhqfuYp-g3PuktNizZ3aD1xTWEX7a1RaS30lrWBYDaVNk0T0Lqqaj79ulYy1EKVy2hyoBfX1g2IHxJ3SRQ3NkJ85fF5v86MPQtLR-V2AIQeojYe5NnTKbB8xFr-blWg1p1spol0tLZ733mQt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-16%20at%203.54.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in FORTY GUNS Year: 1957 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not that Samuel Fuller was an entirely overrated director, but more modern and outright artistic auteurs, from France to America as well as the myriad of rabid Fuller fans, try way too hard finding controversial symbolism in just about everything he does... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is downright stretching it for FORTY GUNS, a deliberately sparse and simple 90-minute Western-Noir that somehow feels extremely long: which isn't entirely bad as several of the characters seem created for something more vastly epic and thematically significant... <br></p><span></span>

action, barbara stanwyck, dean jagger, eve brent, gene barry, robert dix, samuel fuller, western

GENE BARRY IN SAMUEL FULLER'S NOIRISH WESTERN 'FORTY GUNS'

Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in FORTY GUNS Year: 1957 Rating: *** It's not that Samuel Fuller was an entirely overrated director,...

CHARLES BRONSON AND JILL IRELAND IN 'FROM NOON TILL THREE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCUbsRtPiqvn4ypqvIQejiaECI5WMzysBiKX5yHIZnBYIEQfBREgWmW5sM6rKXCa39y2OfUWLvaz-fvIPMagUGZ1WXR1w3nzLIVWPVqVAA3xmuJEyri4uSgxYn-ZIlybm-k-lgZq0GuEMavjyUw61X69q4I3u8gVYX4ZGh9X47HJWz-hWGEtNN5M68tTa/s1366/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-18%20at%201.45.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCUbsRtPiqvn4ypqvIQejiaECI5WMzysBiKX5yHIZnBYIEQfBREgWmW5sM6rKXCa39y2OfUWLvaz-fvIPMagUGZ1WXR1w3nzLIVWPVqVAA3xmuJEyri4uSgxYn-ZIlybm-k-lgZq0GuEMavjyUw61X69q4I3u8gVYX4ZGh9X47HJWz-hWGEtNN5M68tTa/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-18%20at%201.45.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in From Noon Till Three Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In another 1970's Charles Bronson vehicle that aesthetically looks more like a high-quality backlot-shot TV-movie than theatrical b-movie, Charles Bronson and wife Jill Ireland star in what seems like (and is promoted as) a comedy/western... when it's actually an offbeat fable that's ultimately <i>Meta</i>...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Part of a gang of the usual surly outlaws, which turns out being mostly a dream turned nightmare, Bronson eventually... while the boys hit a bank off-screen... holes up at rich sophisticated lady Jill Ireland's middle-of-nowhere-mansion... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

ann ramsey, charles bronson, comedy, dennis fowley, don red barry, frank d. gilroy, jill ireland, seventies, stan haze, western

CHARLES BRONSON AND JILL IRELAND IN 'FROM NOON TILL THREE'

Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in From Noon Till Three Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 In another 1970's Charles Bronson vehicle that aesthe...

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

<p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s1968/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Civil War revenge, twofold: first there's Ben Johnson, who becomes a ranch-hand working for blind, extremely trustworthy Peter Graves, and secretly wants to kill Peter's older brother for backing out of one of the last battles... and then an entire posse wants both brothers dead... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter first-billed Dan Clark, extremely anticipated through expository dialogue, thirty-five minutes in, as his brother and new best friend are cornered by Indians in a cornering canyon, led by legendary faker Iron Eyes Cody...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, ben johnson, dane clark, fifties, peter graves, tracey roberts, western

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2 For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Ci...

GARY LOCKWOOD WITH JAMES STEWART & HENRY FONDA 'FIRECREEK'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGRLaTzSaAO6chJDrI_T019EqDsJd7MrqQ7_45dkzjkgNgvDderu7KeqOZDXlX721of8kPfEDHqodFRdf4yMTGomogwOAjN0TpmUEDGknTPzxNdsjUTkbZuRZU1QSmNRAedu71rz7wkGXBVsSaXzgnb0bCLSYeCTs-0-qD9TR_DtYNt-qCapuuS05qLo4/s2080/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-15%20at%202.30.32%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="2080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGRLaTzSaAO6chJDrI_T019EqDsJd7MrqQ7_45dkzjkgNgvDderu7KeqOZDXlX721of8kPfEDHqodFRdf4yMTGomogwOAjN0TpmUEDGknTPzxNdsjUTkbZuRZU1QSmNRAedu71rz7wkGXBVsSaXzgnb0bCLSYeCTs-0-qD9TR_DtYNt-qCapuuS05qLo4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-15%20at%202.30.32%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Lockwood in FIRECREEK Year: 1968 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With biker movies all the rampaging counter-culture rage, lower budgeted Westerns during the 1960's and 1970's became far more dark, violent, pulpy and contained, and yet, some still followed the old John Ford giant landscape aesthetic — in full background display for FIRECREEK where a gang of subtle yet vicious marauding riders ride into a small town that's literally a main street, and hardly even that...<br> <br> Where James Stewart plays a humble outskirts-farmer/passive substitute sheriff in this titular locale "taken over" in a passive-aggressive fashion, where much of the suspense relies more on implied threat than bloodshed... which <i>does</i> occur at the climax: a worthy wait after a few long scenes where the good guys ponder their lives in existential "is this all there is?" dialogue (one involving Dean Jagger describing the purgatory "town full of losers")...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

brooke bundy, gary lockwood, henry fonda, inger stevens, jack elam, jacqueline scott, james best, james stewart, louise latham, morgan woodward, robert porter, sixties, thriller, western

GARY LOCKWOOD WITH JAMES STEWART & HENRY FONDA 'FIRECREEK'

Gary Lockwood in FIRECREEK Year: 1968 Rating: **** With biker movies all the rampaging counter-culture rage, lower budgeted Westerns during...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZsIREvMvscmo1gTHq2ugOKfc8xn1eiYaWD-H8UNcKQmIG8kJd76KUgrwJH5z8zZjHkJp5VRINdQVgU_BzLmgws8xuCbCSX-4LxgueiaaetJc6mflcRNN1-46jJfuYyrJ-sJYFiNR0Hjl5JhGH97IA3aWwvPFuO3vxN5lb3hyphenhyphenAkprJJa5sNDL7Z5Zxll-/s2074/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%207.46.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="2074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZsIREvMvscmo1gTHq2ugOKfc8xn1eiYaWD-H8UNcKQmIG8kJd76KUgrwJH5z8zZjHkJp5VRINdQVgU_BzLmgws8xuCbCSX-4LxgueiaaetJc6mflcRNN1-46jJfuYyrJ-sJYFiNR0Hjl5JhGH97IA3aWwvPFuO3vxN5lb3hyphenhyphenAkprJJa5sNDL7Z5Zxll-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%207.46.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE BUSHWHACKERS Year: 1951 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Lawrence Tierney turned up in the b-western THE BUSHWHACKERS, his leading man status was practically finished.. but he's used importantly here, at least in the rudimentary stages: a hired thug actually appearing <i>before </i>crippled land baron Lon Chaney Jr and his lethal daughter who hired Tierney to kill random settlers... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ironically, Chaney's correct about the squatters being more interested in big money than settling down... while Tierney continues bullying more underdogs, including passive leading man John Ireland, a Civil War veteran who, during a historic prelude, promised to never use a gun again...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, dorothy malone, fifties, john ireland, lawrence tierney, lon chaney jr., myrna dell, wayne morris, western

LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS'

Title: THE BUSHWHACKERS Year: 1951 Rating: *** By the time Lawrence Tierney turned up in the b-western THE BUSHWHACKERS, his leading man sta...

CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNaWYp2sJ-Y-bs7ruMFPiq02nYzqAQb4jlu53J0vA3sdk7Abmcns-eH3X_WEfpTpvm9QFoOsWLPu80zVFrHNmgdM3jqqP8F9wKKeVMVfJZnku54Ve1ytvlS2oxjDJ7M1FRtNlqtck8VGMCX_k88f3enc8Buh5dW4EhpnSvEnMngP1vuGRWwpI9tdR5B_p/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%201.44.16%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNaWYp2sJ-Y-bs7ruMFPiq02nYzqAQb4jlu53J0vA3sdk7Abmcns-eH3X_WEfpTpvm9QFoOsWLPu80zVFrHNmgdM3jqqP8F9wKKeVMVfJZnku54Ve1ytvlS2oxjDJ7M1FRtNlqtck8VGMCX_k88f3enc8Buh5dW4EhpnSvEnMngP1vuGRWwpI9tdR5B_p/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-11%20at%201.44.16%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MISFITS Year: 1961 Shown: Clark Gable Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most famous about THE MISFITS is that Clark Gable died right after filming, and Marilyn Monroe would live only a year or so later, both being their final films and... written by Marilyn's real life husband, playwright Arthur Miller, based on their May/December relationship with Gable as an old tough cowboy instead of scholar (trying to understand this woman as quirky as she's beautiful)... it's simply too crowded...<br><br>All that's really needed were the two soon-fallen stars... Although Eli Wallach (who ironically lasted until his nineties) has a strategic role as Gable's horse-herding partner, who initially meets the divorcing Monroe's Roslyn (living with experienced mentor Thelma Ritter) in the central town of Reno, Nevada where director John Huston injects his usual sparse B&W into natural dialogue and creative camera angles, much like an Americanized French New Wave film... even taking intentional time before completely revealing Monroe's face...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

clark gable, drama, eli wallach, john huston, marilyn monroe, montgomery clift, romance, sixties, thelma ritter, western

CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS

Title: THE MISFITS Year: 1961 Shown: Clark Gable Rating: ***1/2 Most famous about THE MISFITS is that Clark Gable died right after filming, ...

GIAN MARIA VOLONTÉ AND TOMAS MILIAN GOING 'FACE TO FACE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnvh3XRoX6vduYytPe744IGxcjindJr7pi5x3acfxp4aiNg3eCvlVWKMWo41iGzqUDFoBvlazYXdKoY-VPMedgjHFd4xBGA3ST1borYWfJA9OyoQkzMLO-Pc6RpkJ_CNzILbesAdDNivR3x_fGkRamPANqPsPwB_Nd83X13U2J3C0-9abK-5YDKM6gY5e/s2182/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-22%20at%209.28.26%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnvh3XRoX6vduYytPe744IGxcjindJr7pi5x3acfxp4aiNg3eCvlVWKMWo41iGzqUDFoBvlazYXdKoY-VPMedgjHFd4xBGA3ST1borYWfJA9OyoQkzMLO-Pc6RpkJ_CNzILbesAdDNivR3x_fGkRamPANqPsPwB_Nd83X13U2J3C0-9abK-5YDKM6gY5e/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-22%20at%209.28.26%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sergio Sollima's FACE TO FACE Year: 1967 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In what's Italian director Sergio Sollima's equivalent to Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY also features three representational, symbolic characters with various backgrounds sharing the same agenda from different perspectives ending up in a suspenseful showdown... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Starting with a Boston university professor in Gian Maria Volontè's Brad Fletcher, moved to Texas for health issues and eventually winding up part of post-Civil War history instead of merely teaching it (<i>"though all men must die in time, other men will make history live"</i>) — primarily since local villain Tomas Milian as Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet, with his heart more into protecting a group of mobile peasants (including gorgeous Jolanda Modio and cute tomboy Carole André), is reluctant to maintain his criminal scoundrel status...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, ennio morricone, gian maria volontè, jolanda modio, sergio sollima, sixties, spaghetti western, tomas milian, western, william berger

GIAN MARIA VOLONTÉ AND TOMAS MILIAN GOING 'FACE TO FACE'

Sergio Sollima's FACE TO FACE Year: 1967 Rating: ****1/2 In what's Italian director Sergio Sollima's equivalent to Sergio Leone...

CLINT EASTWOOD WITH ROBERT DUVALL & PAUL KOSLO IN 'JOE KIDD'

<p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vzyZ6PzkehhX02MzMgax2gKtscr9SIB5ZqFlNjme_0N6flhTSX37yOpS3dmYSAzATpUaiHCPD7zVSPnqf2pnRiNTDPzwf6Z-WFe-IZie46jSOvNF-Vaa6now0O3aAzUWbnkY72vZdUhZ2AKO1vOG7sRVFctKNAdqdgduXYLVMD3vQpNkxi-Oy8BMyzpL/s2028/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-17%20at%2010.27.57%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="2028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vzyZ6PzkehhX02MzMgax2gKtscr9SIB5ZqFlNjme_0N6flhTSX37yOpS3dmYSAzATpUaiHCPD7zVSPnqf2pnRiNTDPzwf6Z-WFe-IZie46jSOvNF-Vaa6now0O3aAzUWbnkY72vZdUhZ2AKO1vOG7sRVFctKNAdqdgduXYLVMD3vQpNkxi-Oy8BMyzpL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-17%20at%2010.27.57%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEAST WITH A GUN Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best sequence in the John Sturges American-made Spaghetti-Western-knockoff starring Clint Eastwood has the titular former bounty hunter creatively debilitating a group of Anglo villains, one-by-one, all within the central, purgatory-rural, middle-of-nowhere location where a church is filled with Mexican locals since land baron Robert Duvall... searching for idealistic Mexican leader John Saxon... decides that Eastwood's hired-gun JOE KIDD has his agenda on the wrong side: a logical choice for a cowboy picture with 1970's political sensibilities...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is penned by Elmore Leonard, so Eastwood begins... like Charles Bronson would in MR. MAJESTYK... as a clever and smart-allecky, Leonard-style anti-hero: but soon enough he's quieter, more lowkey and slow-burn than Eastwood is usually, initially pitted politely against Duvall's henchman from Don Stroud to James Wainwright to another MAJESTYK actor Paul Koslo... in what's an 82-minute programmer-length fable that needed either more action, more character-development, or more villains for Eastwood to play those short-lived tricks on: being the only moments that genuinely feel part of an actual Elmore Leonard story.</p><span></span>

action, clint eastwood, james wainwright, john saxon, john sturges, paul koslo, robert duvall, seventies, stella garcia, western

CLINT EASTWOOD WITH ROBERT DUVALL & PAUL KOSLO IN 'JOE KIDD'

Title: BEAST WITH A GUN Year: 1977 Rating: **** The best sequence in the John Sturges American-made Spaghetti-Western-knockoff starring Clin...

JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

<p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s2166/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="2166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmRCoXCqF_tvhiH-ZKpz0UuoWe-HrEzXi9zSg_7cP2sNDtu5inH4VqyaUsFXQswoizZ0ah9qlDMM1CjNeZ04gUGmulz1KwReqeIyCEf6rAYp5FTNJF9YkQLdIluJGxiIbGP_tB59XP7C-QohBsdiRdbIqd9PmOUXe9DgXkrWeTm6Q_wBxoK_x3-Mrc_6E/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-25%20at%2011.33.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of the beloved genre shift, and progress: opening with an old-fashion crooner singing about the title character and then, once we meet James Stewart's Will Lockhart, it's soon learned he's investigating the sale of repeating rifles to Apache Indians, causing his brother's death and leading to an edgy revenge plot popular in almost any Western to come...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, although eventually revealed to be a Army officer, his agenda — having traveled from Laramie to the small town of Coronado — is like a film noir detective, making LARAMIE stand out from other Mann/Stewart Westerns along with a cerebral theme from William Shakespeare's fallen-monarch tragedy, King Lear...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alex nicol, anthony mann, arthur kennedy, cathy o'donnell, donald crisp, jack elam, james stewart, mystery, thriller, wallace ford, western

JAMES STEWART WITH DONALD CRISP IN 'THE MAN FROM LARAMIE'

Title: THE MAN FROM LARAMIE Year: 1955 Rating: ****1/2 Within moments of Anthony Mann's THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, the old and new aspects of...

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

<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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson's films was really a matter of convenience, providing the family a kind of busman's holiday that was great for them, but not always the audience since her overacting often clashed with the comparably slow-burn cadence of vehicles like THE MECHANIC or HARD TIMES: the latter making an enemy out of writer/director Walter Hill, shooting as few scenes with Ireland as possible, so he never worked with a perturbed Bronson again...</p><p></p><p>But in the case of (the same years') BREAKOUT director Tom Gries's Mystery/Western BREAKHEART PASS, Jill Ireland fit perfectly since her character... the daughter of a post-Civil War Northern General... is fitfully classy and sophisticated, making one particular opposites-attract scene really spark while helping Bronson's supposedly captured-outlaw Deakin, tied uncomfortably inside an otherwise fancy train car and... although he's the central lead, PASS is mainly an ensemble, equally balancing the other characters, all suspects...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, bill mckinney, charles bronson, ed lauter, jill ireland, mystery, rayford barnes, richard crenna, sally kirkland, thriller, tom gries, western

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson...

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s2448/1%202%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="2448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double-crossing con artists, and THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN starts right off with honest hero Lex Barker punching his former backstabbing friend in the office of a saloon that's the central location: until they venture into the titular mine with two different names on the claims...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's the shifty fella Barker fought with in charming, unpredictable Howard Duff, with his eyes on the gorgeous daughter of unlucky lifelong gambling miner William Demarest, a kind of passive version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/bogartgold.html">Walter Huston</a>...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, denver pyle, fifties, howard duff, john mcintire, leo gordon, lex barker, mala powers, treasure, western, william demarest

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2 Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE HEIST COMEDY WESTERN 'SAM WHISKEY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTVH8k9BEK2qaXUHdUXIqiWXUfau0XiJDLw6l95GBSn3_aGxLWKDO0mekIUSmdHqE2V0sxDwxcAK_L5I_eMN7bRZ8WbS8_-y5BfFmP26jCYlUKk4v1YPh8A93ujo26KNBWEazvyUUZLtW68FTJJL0VGrC0uN_zJEJRa5kbhfdgUwSKGXb8eVNRTh87FAv/s2040/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-11%20at%206.38.13%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="2040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTVH8k9BEK2qaXUHdUXIqiWXUfau0XiJDLw6l95GBSn3_aGxLWKDO0mekIUSmdHqE2V0sxDwxcAK_L5I_eMN7bRZ8WbS8_-y5BfFmP26jCYlUKk4v1YPh8A93ujo26KNBWEazvyUUZLtW68FTJJL0VGrC0uN_zJEJRa5kbhfdgUwSKGXb8eVNRTh87FAv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-11%20at%206.38.13%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SAM WHISKEY Year: 1969 Grade: C+</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's said Burt Reynolds stopped taking acting seriously when he started doing more lightweight comedies than dramatic films, or when he'd attempt combining both with the zaniness upfront...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But he actually found that perfectly loose, likeable timing in what's otherwise his dramatic peak, DELIVERANCE, when a local he's asking to drive their vehicles down river says, "You're crazy," as Burt quickly replies, "No sh-t", which even gets a laugh from his buddies and seems wonderfully effortless...<br></p><span></span>

action, angie dickinson, burt reynolds, clint walker, comedy, heist, ossie davis, tracey roberts, western

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE HEIST COMEDY WESTERN 'SAM WHISKEY'

Burt Reynolds in SAM WHISKEY Year: 1969 Grade: C+ It's said Burt Reynolds stopped taking acting seriously when he started doing more lig...

JIM BROWN AND JIM KELLY 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' FRED WILLIAMSON

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfylsO-AMrVT4MdATJV9_nDjen2IQ1bKykCjc5mRkN6c13zPY9YCQco811-13tiLyq7NAFcfeKAfRVBBG_mRdCOqouKX_v3gZ686FHWLsYkuHXiKIL9LgBrTvwFVw0ch8SWxOhnWird7sL_QhUAh_8DKq9ni3jiSSMJ4FAaannBu60ZaSLLkMdcxAqg/s2206/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-26%20at%208.54.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="2206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfylsO-AMrVT4MdATJV9_nDjen2IQ1bKykCjc5mRkN6c13zPY9YCQco811-13tiLyq7NAFcfeKAfRVBBG_mRdCOqouKX_v3gZ686FHWLsYkuHXiKIL9LgBrTvwFVw0ch8SWxOhnWird7sL_QhUAh_8DKq9ni3jiSSMJ4FAaannBu60ZaSLLkMdcxAqg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-05-26%20at%208.54.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TAKE A HARD RIDE Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred Williamson play the hero and anti-hero, or a Spaghetti Western, since Lee Van Cleef is the bad guy, will be disappointed. While it does have some of the (very intentional) Spaghetti elements in style and music, and slick action sequences for Blaxploitation fans...<br> <br> TAKE A HARD RIDE is actually an old-fashioned cowboy flick involving honest man Jim Brown and dishonest gambler Fred Williamson, on a quest to deliver money (that Brown made with late boss Dana Andrews, veteran of said classic Westerns) to a small town with cunning and deadly bounty hunter Van Cleef on their trail...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, catherine spaak, dana andrews, fred williamson, jim brown, jim kelly, karate, lee van cleef, road movie, seventies, western

JIM BROWN AND JIM KELLY 'TAKE A HARD RIDE' FRED WILLIAMSON

Title: TAKE A HARD RIDE Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Expectations for a Blaxploitation-Western, being that Jim Brown and Fred Williamson play...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCWDlL23zY7YtC8L6T3ZuA0_Vz5Yeqr0-jYhKfbP03PX5PQXmJEI4wmRXxsmzePXupd8Q3o4joPcxY8pHtuJslBLhBEa8WhBIg4FzRrq-PsYIAM_Pgz4NdMD8z7M_k_tEIyaP3H0ntgAbxcPNP-J8m_-ssfgIE_fSvkxK17NXUzv-oWIHeK64JomyAXNS/s1813/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-19%20at%209.49.34%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1813" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCWDlL23zY7YtC8L6T3ZuA0_Vz5Yeqr0-jYhKfbP03PX5PQXmJEI4wmRXxsmzePXupd8Q3o4joPcxY8pHtuJslBLhBEa8WhBIg4FzRrq-PsYIAM_Pgz4NdMD8z7M_k_tEIyaP3H0ntgAbxcPNP-J8m_-ssfgIE_fSvkxK17NXUzv-oWIHeK64JomyAXNS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-19%20at%209.49.34%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds teamed for THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING, based on a then-popular Gothic Western novel and almost the kind of horsepower road movie that Sarafian already had down pat... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But more a deliberate adventure in reverse, beginning with a train robbery introduction to a bank robbing gang led by a quiet-silent Renyolds; a tough-as-nails Jack Warden; a passive Indian and Bo Hopkins, again playing an unpredictable, hopped-up hillbilly ala Sam Peckinpah cinema...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, bo hopkins, burt reynolds, jack warden, revenge, romance, sarah miles, western

BURT REYNOLDS STARS IN 'THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING'

Title: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING Year: 1973 Rating: ** VANISHING POINT director Richard C. Sarafian and budding superstar Burt Reynolds ...