WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS (**)
Western Night At The MoviesNot a typical Western, but a Western nonetheless, HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS (1960) was Sheila Ellis’s choice for our April Western Night session.
Not a typical Western, but a Western nonetheless, HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS (1960) was Sheila Ellis’s choice for our April Western Night session.
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.
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.
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.
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.