THOMAS D. CLAGETT

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WINCHESTER ‘73

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Oct 28, 2025 | Western Night At The Movies

Noir Westerns, dark, brooding stories featuring deeply flawed characters with something gnawing at their souls and set in the wide expanses and big skies of the Old West, began showing up in the late ‘40s and into the ‘50s. Films like THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, PURSUED,...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BLINDMAN

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Sep 17, 2025 | Western Night At The Movies

For this Western Night, Kirk Ellis chose BLINDMAN (1971), a spaghetti Western featuring a blind anti-hero. Sergio Leone introduced probably the most well-known Western anti-hero to American audiences with his Man with No Name movies in the mid-Sixties starring Clint...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Aug 19, 2025 | Western Night At The Movies

A contemporary noir Western, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) was my choice for this Western Night. Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, it won four Academy Awards including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen.  Set in 1980...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: 3 BAD MEN

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Jul 14, 2025 | Western Night At The Movies

John Ford famously said, “I make Westerns.” He began his long career in the silent era. We’ve brought a few of his Westerns to our Movie Nights, mostly his talkies. But for this session, Johnny Boggs screened Ford’s last silent Western, 3 BAD MEN, released in 1926.  A...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE LONELY MAN

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Apr 15, 2025 | Western Night At The Movies

For this Western Night session, David Morrell brought a film none of us had seen and that we all agreed was not good. THE LONELY MAN (1957), perhaps inspired by THE GUNFIGHTER a few years earlier, tells the story of Jacob Wade (Jack Palance), a gunslinger who’s...