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Director Glenn Tryon’s 1938 RKO movie The Law West of Tombstone is an above-average little B-movie Western, mixing action, comedy, history, music and romance, with a decent cast, a good tale and memorably interesting characters based on […]
Rock Hudson convinces as a romanticised version of real-life American Old West freed killer, outlaw and folk icon John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 – August 19, 1895), who sets out to make enough money to begin a new life to […]
‘A WOMAN WRONGED…A MAN TO AVENGE HER!… and he rode south to do it!’ Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 Western stars Rock Hudson as just married Ben Warren, who brings his new bride Jennifer Ballard (Donna […]
Audie Murphy stars as one of the Old West’s legendary outlaws – Jesse James – in director Ray Enright’s robust and welcome 1950 American Civil War-set Western. The screenplay by Robert L Richards finds Jesse […]
Raoul Walsh’s powerful 1949 Western film Colorado Territory gallops along, with a moody, fatalistic atmosphere swirling around Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, plus a dark film noir look refreshingly unusual in a Western. Director Raoul […]
Randolph Scott stars as Ben Brigade, a vengeful lawman who captures a wanted murderous young gunman, Billy John (James Best), to trap the gunman’s brother Frank (Lee Van Cleef), the killer of Scott’s wife. Scott is […]
In 1955, screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote a screenplay entitled 7 Men from Now to be filmed by John Wayne’s Batjac Productions with Wayne as star and Budd Boetticher as director. But Wayne was committed to John Ford’s The Searchers and suggested his Republican friend Scott instead after Gary Cooper turned […]