THOMAS D. CLAGETT

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...