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 his father [...]
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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 is returning to [...]
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 type [...]
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: 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 from his [...]
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 and [...]
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 west Texas [...]
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: Return of the Outlaws
September 25, 2009 – 1:08 am
John Castellanos – Jack Barnett Corbin Timbrook – Sheriff Link Jefferson Samantha Lockwood – Lila J. Eddie Peck – Pick Randall Mark Hayter – Scotty Michael Gregory – Judge Harrold Eddie Enriquez – Frank Kilgore Mindy Dudek – Hannah Jefferson Peter Sherayko – Doc Warren Lorenzo Lamas – Cole This is a western story set [...]
Movie Review: Shane
September 18, 2009 – 1:08 am
The story is by Jack Schaefer and I have read and reviewed the book and posted it on my blog. The book review made me want to see and the movie again and I’m glad I did. Allan Ladd – Shane Jean Arthur – Marian Starett Van Heflin – Joe Starett Brandon DeWilde – Joey [...]
