Edge of Eternity (1959)
With Don Siegel directing there’s one thing we can be assured of and that’s an opening scene that grabs you by the throat in this murder/mystery action thriller. That opening […]
Sabata (1969)
With the arrival of Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the so called spaghetti western genre was born and would continue to evolve and bend the accepted way westerns were filmed, […]
Casting the Western Songs of Marty Robbins
Back when Country Music could be found in the Country & Western section of your local music stores, one name that was bound to have a number of LP’s in […]
The Last Challenge (1967)
“A man either get’s smart or get’s dead.” MGM released this latter day Glenn Ford western and the final film of long time director Richard Thorpe that at times rides […]
Killdozer (1974)
If I didn’t know any better I’d think this Universal Studios Production was a lost script destined to be on the lower half of a double bill with The Monolith […]
Project : Kill (1976)
Just four years short of having a major change in the direction of his career, Leslie Nielsen, takes a trip to the Philippines in this piece of exploitation fare along […]
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
It’s hard to come up with a better vehicle to showcase the on screen chemistry of cinema icons Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas than the tale of Wyatt Earp and […]
Ride Vaquero! (1953)
One would think that a film starring long time leading man Robert Taylor opposite sultry Ava Gardner would result in one of the years more memorable on screen romances. In reality what […]
Man Without a Star (1955)
I have often heard it said that Kirk Douglas’ favorite film is Lonely Are the Brave featuring the cleft chin icon as an aging, misplaced cowboy running out of time […]
Rawhide (1951)
Western stalwart Henry Hathaway directed this claustrophobic tale in the spirit of The Petrified Forest featuring a first rate cast of actors against the backdrop of Lonesome Pine, California. Rawhide […]
Count The Hours (1953)
Don Siegel opens this Noirish thriller with a great point of view break and entry shot leading to the murders of an elderly couple. The second of which is brutally […]
Wrapping Up My Second Year On Line
“Made it Ma. Top of the world.” Two straight years on line with at least one posting per day. Getting something on here has become part of my daily routine […]
Raquel Welch Goes West : The Poster Gallery
Sexy? Absolutely! Rugged? Holds her own opposite the likes of Dean Martin and Jim Brown. Deadly? Just ask a trio of low down rattle snakes going by the name of […]
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
During the post Johnny Weissmuller years for the famed jungle man created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, there were still plenty of on screen adventures. Perhaps none better during the Gordon […]
Jubal (1956)
In the decade of the 1950’s the western was at it’s peak in popularity between movies released theatrically and the overwhelming amount of shows being made for television like Gunsmoke […]
Jack Elam : From Dastardly Villain to Comedy Sidekick?
When you watch the amount of westerns I did growing up you can’t help but begin to focus in on the guy to the left of the central villain. Actors […]
