THOMAS D. CLAGETT

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE SHOOTIST

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by Thomas Clagett | Aug 19, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

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 weeks to live, he...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL

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by Thomas Clagett | Aug 6, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

For this Western Night session, I brought GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957), directed by John Sturges (BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK) with a script by Leon Uris (BATTLE CRY). In this film, many of the facts surrounding the most famous gunfight of the Old West, as well as...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WALK LIKE A DRAGON

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by Thomas Clagett | Jul 16, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

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 1870, stops a young...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BUCK AND THE PREACHER

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by Thomas Clagett | Jun 11, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

For this Movie Night session, Kirk Ellis chose BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972), a lively blend of Western action and social commentary about…

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HEARTLAND

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by Thomas Clagett | Apr 8, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

It was Johnny D. Boggs’s turn to select the film for this Western Night session and he brought HEARTLAND (1979) based on LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER, a memoir by Elinor Pruitt Stewart about her experiences in the unforgiving wilds of Wyoming. Set in 1910, Elinor...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: LILIES OF THE FIELD

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by Thomas Clagett | Nov 6, 2023 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

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, needs water for his...