This second disc in two parts highlights the year 1862. The introduction of the Income Tax and the Inventions for making war show casing the Gatling Gun. This year highlights the fact that the weapons have surged far ahead of military tactics. General McClellan is in charge of the Union army but [...]
Category Archives: Movie Review
Movie Review: PBS Documentary The Civil War Part 1
February 27, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a multiple part documentary movie series on the Civil War by Ken Burns. The coverage is from how the Civil War began to the end of the war. Part one is geared around what happened to get this scenario moving in such a direction and to cause so much mayhem. [...]
Movie Review: The Ox-Bow Incident
February 20, 2010 – 1:10 am
This movie is adapted from the novel of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s by the same name. This movie is a tense drama highlighting the dangers inherent in the nature of man. The vision is that of a mob mentality that can and will replace reason.
Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan portray cowboys new into [...]
Movie Review: Conagher
February 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western movie from a Louis L’Amour story by the same title. The story revolves around the lives of two people of the west. We have a recently widowed Evie Teale, played by Katherine Ross, who is sticking to the land her husband brought her to. He then road [...]
Movie Review: Raiders of Old California
January 30, 2010 – 1:10 am
This Black and White Western Movie is set in 1847 California. The basis of the story is on land grants and how crooked men were able to gain control over large parcels of land and try and rule it like its own kingdom.
Senor Sebastian used his land grant to initially save his life and [...]
Movie Review: Last Stand at Saber River
January 23, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western story by Elmore Leonard ( Get Shorty, Out of Sight ) turned into a movie. The story is about a family that is reunited after the father returns from the Civil War as a changed man but inside he is still the same and the family returns to their home [...]
Movie Review: The Shadow Riders
January 16, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a Louis L’Amour story of two brothers immediately after the Civil War. Each of the two older Traven brothers fought on opposite sides but are now heading home. The oldest one Daly played by Sam Elliot, fought for the Confederacy and was caught up in two separate events that almost took [...]
Movie Review: Far and Away
January 9, 2010 – 1:10 am
I classified this movie as a western. The story began in Ireland and ended up on the rolling plains of Oklahoma. This is a love story with a truly American twist in that the lowly commoner wins the love of the gentry of the old country. Joseph Donnelly played by Tom Cruise holds [...]
Movie Review: Love Takes Wing
November 27, 2009 – 2:10 am
My wife, Margot, is the guest blogger here today. I asked her to give you her opinion of this frontier saga. Thank you Margot.
A Made For TV Movie: The Hallmark Channel
Directed by Lou Diamond Phillips
Teleplay by Rachel Stuhler
Synopsis of the story:
The frontier town of Sikeston, Missouri needs a doctor. They are desperate enough to [...]
Movie Review: Blue Steel
November 20, 2009 – 1:09 am
This is a very early John Wayne western released in 1934. The opening scene has the good guy, played by John Wayne, sneaking into the hotel and finding a cubbyhole to hide in and rest. The sheriff played by Gabby Hayes comes in next and is looking for a dry place to spend [...]
