WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BADLANDS OF DAKOTA
For this Western Night, Robert Nott choose BADLANDS OF DAKOTA (1941), and it’s a hoot! Set in Deadwood during its early gold rush days, two brothers, Jim and Bob Holliday (played by a young Robert Stack and a reliably gruff Broderick Crawford), are...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WILD ROVERS
For our latest Western Night session, Kirk Ellis chose WILD ROVERS (1971), an enjoyable, almost gentle Western. Having worked the better part of his fifty years cowboying in Montana, Ross Bodine (William Holden) has a dream of living a good life...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE COMANCHEROS
As it was my turn to choose the movie for this latest gathering, I brought THE COMANCHEROS (1961), a big old fashioned action adventure. It’s the darndest plot. In 1843, Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman), a womanizing gambler wanted for murder after...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CHEYENNE
A pretty good crime caper played like a screwball comedy dressed up as a Western might best describe CHEYENNE (1947), Johnny D. Boggs’s choice for this latest Western Night session. Slick gambler Jim Wylie (Dennis Morgan) gets the choice of prison...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CANYON PASSAGE
For this Western Night gathering, Robert Nott brought CANYON PASSAGE (1946), a film both problematic and admirable. It’s about the various business owners in a small Oregon mining town in the 1850s and the difficulties they face. The thing is, it...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE SHOOTIST
David Morrell chose THE SHOOTIST (1976), a tale of the passing of the Old West that is also John Wayne’s final film for this session of Western Night. Wayne plays J. B. Books, an aging gunfighter in 1901. Told he has a cancer and with only a few...
