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.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE HARVEY GIRLS
Charming and sweet aren’t often used to describe a Western, but they do fit THE HARVEY GIRLS, the 1946 Western musical from MGM that was Sheila Ellis’s choice for this Western Night movie gathering. The film moves right along, much like “The...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: RIDE LONESOME
For this session of Western Night, Kirk Ellis chose RIDE LONESOME (1959). It has been called one of the best B-Westerns ever made. The Western films Randolph Scott made with director Budd Boetticher are known as the Ranown films, an acronym for...
