WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: FORTY GUNS
Western Night At The MoviesOccasionally, someone brings something truly unexpected to our sessions. Sheila Ellis did just that with FORTY GUNS (1957), an offbeat, operatic, and very enjoyable Western.
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: LILIES OF THE FIELD
Blog 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...WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: COLORADO TERRITORY
Western Night At The Movies 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 COLORADO TERRITORY...WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BAD LANDS
Blog 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 a small oasis by...WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: MAN WITHOUT A STAR
BlogFor 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.