WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: FORTY GUNS
Occasionally, someone brings something truly unexpected to our sessions. Sheila Ellis did just that with FORTY GUNS (1957), an offbeat, operatic, and very enjoyable Western.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: LILIES OF THE FIELD
A charming contemporary Western, LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963) was my choice for our latest Western Night Movie gathering. It tells the story of a traveling handyman named Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) who, while driving through the Arizona desert,...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: COLORADO TERRITORY
It’s hard to say who may have come up with the idea of turning HIGH SIERRA, the 1941 film noir classic with Humphrey Bogart as a hardboiled bank robber agreeing to pull one last job, into a Western, but it was an inspired one. That Western was...
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR
It was with great regret that I heard that Academy Award-winning film director William Friedkin died yesterday, August 7, 2023. The cause was heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BAD LANDS
For our latest session of Western Night, Robert Nott brought BAD LANDS, a B Western from 1939. It’s a variation of THE LOST PATROL, the best-known version being the 1934 film directed by John Ford, about a British Army patrol in WWI pinned down at...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: MAN WITHOUT A STAR
For this latest Western Night Movie session, David Morrell chose MAN WITHOUT A STAR (1955), a range war story, though routine in some ways, is still not the usual one you might expect.
