WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CHEYENNE

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...

by Oct 22, 2024 No Comments
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CANYON PASSAGE

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...

by Sep 10, 2024 No Comments
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE SHOOTIST

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...

by Aug 19, 2024 No Comments
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WALK LIKE A DRAGON

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WALK LIKE A DRAGON

In the past, Sheila Ellis has brought several unexpected films to Western Night. She did so again with WALK LIKE A DRAGON (1960), a cross-cultural triangle love story. A tough-as-nails freight company owner, picking up supplies in San Francisco in...

by Jul 16, 2024 No Comments
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