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 [...]
Tag Archives: Western
Book Review: The Open Range Men
August 26, 2009 – 1:08 am
I liked the movie so much that I searched out the book, written by Lauran Paine. This western novel was the premise for the movie Open Range. The movie is what attracted me originally to the book. The book was a quick read for me and I enjoyed hearing new terms and seeing the [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: The Chili Queen
August 19, 2009 – 1:08 am
The story is a western, written by a gifted writer who spins the tale through many twists and turns. The story begins unsuspectingly on a train from Kansas City to Nalgits, New Mexico. The Madam of the Chili Queen, Addie, shares a seat with Emma an old maid who is an apparent mail order bride [...]
Movie Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales
August 14, 2009 – 1:08 am
Movie Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales Adapted from a book: Gone to Texas by Forest Carter Directed by Clint Eastwood Josey Wales – Clint Eastwood Lone Watie – Chief Dan George Loura Lee – Sondra Locke Terril – Bill McKinney Fletcher – John Vernon Jamie – Sam Bottoms The movie begins with the tranquil scene [...]
Book Review: The Searchers
August 12, 2009 – 1:08 am
The Searchers as a novel ranking among the top of all westerns. The author Alan LeMay placed his intensity of words into the vivid and stark images of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. His dialogue has the reality of the time and the flavor of the people, caught up in the things that were happening, [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: Deadly Road to Yuma-Blood Bond Series
August 5, 2009 – 1:08 am
William W Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone continues a series of western stories with Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves getting involved in all manner of western troubles. This series story gets the two blood brothers involved in the capture and transporting of a notorious gang leader, Preacher Joshua Shade. The happenings that drive the story [...]
Movie Review: Tombstone
July 31, 2009 – 1:08 am
This is a western movie about a real town with a vivid history in the 1870’s, where a man could start over. This town has a history that the west can never forget. The story begins with an introduction of one of the west’s first organized criminal gang, called the Cowboys. The Cowboys are lead [...]
Book Review: Bugles in the Afternoon
July 29, 2009 – 1:08 am
The author Ernest Haycox was a critical Western history buff. This story was the first of his works published in The Saturday Evening Post. He died in 1950 at the age of 51. This is a story within a story. The beginning introduces you to two of the main characters as the travel by train, [...]
