WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE PROUD REBEL (***)

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by Thomas Clagett | Jan 10, 2022 | Western Night At The Movies

One of the most enjoyable things about our Western Night gatherings is watching a film that defeats expectations. Kirk Ellis did just that with THE PROUD REBEL (1958). It’s not about an ex-confederate still fighting the Civil War. Rather, it concerns a confederate who’s accepted the war is over and comes to Illinois trying to find a cure for his mute young son.

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: OLD HENRY (***)

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by Thomas Clagett | Dec 13, 2021 | Western Night At The Movies

This time it was my turn to select the film for our Western Night gathering and I chose OLD HENRY released back in October of this year.

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN (** ½)

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by Thomas Clagett | Nov 29, 2021 | Western Night At The Movies

It was Johnny Boggs’s turn to select the film for this Western Night session and he chose a surprising silent released in 1920 called THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN, a film about Native Americans with a cast of all Native Americans, namely Kiowas and Comanches.

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK GAP (** 1/2)

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by Thomas Clagett | Nov 16, 2021 | Western Night At The Movies

For our latest Western Night gathering, Robert Nott brought AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK GAP (1953), a breakneck-paced B Western, the kind that made Saturday afternoon matinees so much fun. Avarice and determination drive this movie about four prisoners released from Yuma...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL (***)

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by Thomas Clagett | Oct 18, 2021 | Western Night At The Movies

For our October gathering David Morrell brought LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL (1959). It’s a tension-filled tale about Marshal Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) out to arrest the two men who raped and killed a woman.

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO (***)

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by Thomas Clagett | Sep 13, 2021 | Western Night At The Movies

For our Western Night session this month, Sheila Ellis chose THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO, an astonishing film inspired by a true story of a woman, shunned by her family for having an illegitimate child, who came West and, in order to survive, dressed and acted like a man,...