Appreciating the Randolph Scott / Budd Boetticher Westerns
Like a fine wine, Randolph Scott westerns, particularly those directed by Budd Boetticher have only gotten better as the years have passed by. Their reputations and stature only increasing with […]
Two Flags West (1950)
With an opportunity presenting itself to select a Joseph Cotten movie thanks to Maddy’s Classic Film site and Crystal of In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood playing host […]
Virginia Mayo Goes West Part 1
I’ll be the first to admit I knew who Virginia Mayo was long before I figured out who Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were. And why not. When your a […]
Shoot Out (1971)
Shoot Out represents the final western to be directed by Henry Hathaway. A man who had given us a wide variety of successful oaters including Rawhide, Nevada Smith and True […]
Split Second (1953)
If one were to subtitle this Dick Powell directed feature then how about, The Petrified Forest Meets The Atomic Age. While we don’t get Bogie, Howard or Davis, we do […]
Johnny Come Lately (1943)
“If I were thirty years younger.” To see Marjorie Main look James Cagney up and down with a hunger in her eye and deliver that line is alone worth the price of admission to […]
Passage West (1951)
Action star John Payne gets the technicolor treatment from director Lewis R. Foster along with a brawling donnybrook against costar Dennis O’Keefe in this tale of the western frontier. Payne […]
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Though the characters of Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in the Fred MacMurray – Claudette Colbert winning comedy The Egg and I, it is here in the first of […]
The Revengers (1972)
William Holden and Ernest Borgnine return to Mexico three years after their iconic turns in The Wild Bunch to film this poorly constructed, yet never dull western from director Daniel […]
