WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE DARKENING TRAIL
Sometimes at Western Night we’ll see a film with a passel of problems but was still well-worth seeing. One of those was THE DARKENING TRAIL (1915), a silent movie Johnny D. Boggs selected for this gathering. In this frontier morality tale about...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: RAILS TO LARAMIE
An enjoyable Saturday afternoon matinee Western, RAILS TO LARAMIE (1954) was Robert Nott’s choice for this Western Night session. When Jefferson Harder (John Payne) arrives in the hell on wheels town of Laramie with orders to get the railroad crew...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE TRAIL OF ‘98
For this Western Night session, Sheila Ellis chose THE TRAIL OF ’98, an astonishing silent film from MGM studios released in 1928. Based on a novel by Robert W. Service, it tells the story of fortune hunters from across America who left (though...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: SARAH’S OIL
This highly uplifting tale inspired by a true story set in Oklahoma in 1913 was Kirk Ellis’s choice for this Western Night viewing. Sarah Rector (played by remarkable first-time actress Naya Desir-Johnson), is an 11-year-old firmly religious black...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE VIRGINIAN tv series episode: “Duel at Shiloh”
Join author Thomas D. Clagett for a Western Night look at The Virginian’s first-season episode “Duel at Shiloh,” adapted from the 1955 film Man Without a Star.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BULLET FOR A BADMAN
Films that are flawed—not plain bad, but problematic—are welcomed at our Western Night sessions and, as it was his turn to choose, Robert Nott brought one called A BULLET FOR A BADMAN (1964). This B Western, directed by R. G. Springsteen who...
