WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: FORT DEFIANCE (**1/2)
Along with Robert, award-winning journalist and author of THE FILMS OF BUDD BOETTICHER, our group includes Johnny D. Boggs, record eight-time Spur Award-winning author whose works include RETURN TO RED RIVER, Kirk Ellis, Emmy-winning writer and producer of HBOs JOHN ADAMS and TNTs INTO THE WEST, Kirk’s wife Sheila, and David Morrell, award-winning author and New York times best-selling author of FIRST BLOOD.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (***)
A gentle, comic, romantic Western about a man left to die in the desert and found water where it wasn’t. THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (1970) may not sound like a Sam Peckinpah film, but it is. Peckinpah had just completed THE WILD BUNCH, his violent...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD
Our virtual Western Movie Night continued last evening welcoming our new member, Sheila Ellis. As her first choice, she selected the little seen THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, a remarkably unexpected Western. Based on the biographical novel of the same...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: GUNSLINGER (**)
Our virtual Western Night at the Movies convened yesterday evening and Kirk Ellis chose GUNSLINGER (1956) directed by the king of small budget indies, Roger Corman, arguably best known for his Edgar Allan Poe-inspired horror films from the sixties starring Vincent Price.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES DARK COMMAND (***)
In spite of the pandemic lockdown, our Western Night at the Movies group still manages to watch a Western. Robert Nott and Kirk Ellis came up with the idea that we’d choose a film available online for free (and there’s a slew of them), watch it on our own and then we’d have a Zoom session online to discuss it.
As it was my turn to select the film, I was very pleased to find DARK COMMAND (1940) available. It stars John Wayne, Clair Trevor and Walter Pidgeon.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: GUNMAN’S WALK (***1/2)
At our latest Western Night get-together, Johnny Boggs brought GUNMAN’S WALK (1958), a morality play about father and son rivalry, racism, lies, and the wrongheadedness of indulgence.
