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 [...]
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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: McLintock
November 13, 2009 – 1:09 am
This is a John Wayne western set in one of the western territories, in the town of McLintock. The town is named after the long time resident and cattle baron George Washington McLintock, played by John Wayne. The striking Maureen O’Hara who spices up this role plays GW’s wife Kathereen McLintock. Kate [...]
Movie Review: Hidalgo
November 6, 2009 – 1:09 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
Movie Review: Angel and the Badman
October 23, 2009 – 1:09 am
This is a movie that helped cement John Wayne in his position as the model for all future western characters or actors. The movie begins with a chase that we as an audience do not know the reason for. At the end of the chase Quirt Evans played by John Wayne is thrown [...]
Movie Review: The Missing
October 16, 2009 – 1:09 am
I am presently reviewing another mystical and unusual movie based on the novel,The Last Ride by Thomas Edison. This movie is definitely a western, set in 1885, New Mexico. The main actor is Tommy Lee Jones and he plays, Samuel Jones an estranged father and grandfather. His daughter has two daughters by different men [...]
Movie Review: No Country For Old Men
October 9, 2009 – 1:09 am
Is this a western movie? I am reviewing the movie “No Country For Old Men” and it has created a dilemma in my mind as to it being a western movie. The time frame places it in the west in the 1980’s during the early wild times where money brought drugs through the [...]
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 [...]
