This is a movie directed by John Ford about a western ledgend that has some fact laced with myth. The first scene is a cattle drive and it pictures the initial characters getting ready to stop for the night and a lone buggy drive by Walter Brennan playing old man Clanton comes close and the [...]
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Movie Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
April 10, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is an old classic western featuring John Wayne and James Stewart. The story begins at the small town of Shinbone and U.S. Senator played by James Stewart and his wife arrive in town to attend a funeral of a man who is going to be buried by the county because he is so poor [...]
Movie Review: El Dorado
April 3, 2010 – 1:10 am
This movie is about two old friends one still an active gunfighter and the other a sheriff in El Dorado. They have competed in many things and still remained friendly. The gunfighter Cole Thornton, is played by John Wayne and the sheriff J.P. Harrah, is played by Robert Mitchum. The story develops in the town [...]
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: 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 [...]
Movie Review: The Quick and the Dead
September 11, 2009 – 1:08 am
Based on a book by Louis L’Amour titled The Quick and the Dead This was commissioned by HBO in1987 The main actors are: Sam Elliott – Con Vallian Kate Capshaw – Susanna McKaskel Tom Conti – Duncan McKaskel Kenny Morrison – Tom McKaskel Matt Clark – Doc Shabitt The first scene is as the eastern [...]
Movie Review: The Long Riders
August 28, 2009 – 1:08 am
The Cast of Actors David Caradine – Cole Younger Keith Caradine – Jim Younger Robert Caradine – Bob Younger James Keach – Jesse James Stacy Keach – Frank James Dennis Quaid – Ed Miller Randy Quaid – Clel Miller Christopher Guest – Bob Ford Nicholas Guest – Charlie Ford In this movie we have four [...]
Movie Review: The Cowboys
August 21, 2009 – 1:08 am
This is a true western told in a way to inspire, give hope and set an example on one way to raise boys. The first scene is where John Wayne, playing Wil Anderson, is breaking horses as five men ride up. These men were his trail crew for fifteen hundred cattle that he had planned [...]
