Movie Review: Hidalgo This movie is based on the life of Frank T. Hopkins called the Far Rider and the Blue Child, played by Viggo Mantehsen. His mother was a Sioux and his father was an army enlisted person. The movie begins at the end of a horse race that he wins. This type [...]
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Movie Review: Appaloosa
October 30, 2009 – 1:09 am
This is a movie based on the novel by Robert P. Parker. The setting is the town of Appaloosa in the New Mexico Territory in 1882. The first scene is of a City Marshall Jack Bell being shot off his hose while he is performing his duty of arresting two murders that are ranch hands [...]
Movie Review: Jeremiah Johnson
October 3, 2009 – 1:09 am
This is a movie staring Robert Redford as a mountain man. The story begins as he gets off the river and starts inland seeking out the high places to trap and hunt away from the sights and sounds of man. The life of a mountain man is a hard lonely life. The beginning is just [...]
Movie Review: The Shootist
August 7, 2009 – 1:08 am
John Wayne – J.B. Books Lauren Bacall – Bond Rogers James Stewart – Dr. Hostetler This is a western movie depicting the end of an era. In the last seven days of J.B. Books life he completes some old and new scores, dramatized by John Wayne. Dr. Hostetler, played by James Stewart, confirms a previous [...]
