THOMAS D. CLAGETT

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: RIDE LONESOME

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Mar 13, 2023 | Western Night At The Movies

For this session of Western Night, Kirk Ellis chose RIDE LONESOME (1959). It has been called one of the best B-Westerns ever made. The Western films Randolph Scott made with director Budd Boetticher are known as the Ranown films, an acronym for productions that mostly...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Jan 30, 2023 | Western Night At The Movies

For this latest Western Night gathering, Johnny D. Boggs brought THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ, a little seen film when it was released in 1983, but one that still resonates forty years later.

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE TALL MEN

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Dec 20, 2022 | Western Night At The Movies

It isn’t often that we watch a film that none of us has ever seen, or only caught a few minutes of many years ago. But that was the case at our latest get-together with David Morrell’s selection of THE TALL MEN (1955). Directed by Raoul Walsh (THEY DIED WITH THEIR...

WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: POWWOW HIGHWAY

Western Night At The Movies

by Thomas Clagett | Nov 22, 2022 | Western Night At The Movies

For our latest gathering, Sheila Ellis chose POWWOW HIGHWAY (1989), a charming, enjoyable film about two Northern Cheyenne Indian friends on a cross-country odyssey, but for two very different reasons. Philbert, (Gary Farmer in a wonderful performance), having just...