THOMAS D. CLAGETT

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE COMANCHEROS

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by Thomas Clagett | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

As it was my turn to choose the movie for this latest gathering, I brought THE COMANCHEROS (1961), a big old fashioned action adventure. It’s the darndest plot. In 1843, Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman), a womanizing gambler wanted for murder after killing the son of a...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CANYON PASSAGE

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by Thomas Clagett | Sep 10, 2024 | Blog, Western Night At The Movies

For this Western Night gathering, Robert Nott brought CANYON PASSAGE (1946), a film both problematic and admirable. It’s about the various business owners in a small Oregon mining town in the 1850s and the difficulties they face. The thing is, it plays like a skewed...

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...