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Entry #29 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Paramount, 1962. One of the best of John Ford’s later films, and probably his last great one. John Wayne’s performance as Tom Doniphon (the title character, spoiler alert) is among his best. His swagger when standing up to Liberty Valance in the...

Entry #27 The Iron Horse, Fox Film Corporation, 1924, Silent. This is an early John Ford movie about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Hunky Dave Brandon (George O’Brien) is a railworker courting childhood friend Milly (Madge Bellamy) who is the daughter of the railroad proprietor...

Entry #26 (bonus entry) The Light in the Forest, Walt Disney, 1958. This is one of the many quality films Walt Disney produced during his lifetime. I’ve always liked it very much. James MacArthur, in his first film for Disney, plays Johnny a white boy who was captured by the Delaware Indians...

Robert, what do you think of the version of The Burning Hills that is streaming on MAX right now? It’s a different master than the DVD, and might even be HD, but it looks like it is cropped on the top and bottom.

Entry #25 Duel in the Sun, Selznick International, 1946, Technicolor. This movie is a sultry Western soap opera, with Gregory Peck playing very much against type as a womanizing bad apple, juxtaposed against good brother Joseph Cotton. Jennifer Jones is the mixed-race young woman whose father...

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Entry #24 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Paramount, 1957, VistaVision. While it may not be the best version of the story, it has always been one of my favorites. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas are great in it as are Rhonda Fleming and Jo Van Fleet, and the VistaVision photography is breathtaking...

Before we totally derail this thread, please join the conversion here, as I would love the hear more about Tino's experiences in that thread.

So happy to hear this. I’ll be going through the same thing very soon. My consultation is in the middle of April and hopefully I won’t have to wait too long after that, but these cataract surgery clinics are very, very busy!

Entry #23 Bad Company, Paramount, 1972. This is a really good Western about six boys who head west to find their fortune. One of them played by Barry Brown, is actually a decent young man, but pretends to be bad to fit in with the others. Jeff Bridges plays their amoral leader. They try to...

Entry #22 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Warner Brothers, 1972. I watched two movies from 1972 back to back. This one, which was a disappointment, and another really good one which I will post about tomorrow. This Warner Archive Blu-ray was a blind buy that has been sitting on my shelf...

Entry #21 Northwest Passage, MGM, 1940, Technicolor. This was a first-time viewing for me. The story, adapted from the first half of the novel, is a fictionalized account of Rogers’ Rangers' raid on Saint-Francis during the French and Indian War. It’s an arduous trek of 150 men through uncharted...

Entry #20 (Bonus entry) War Arrow, Universal, 1953. As I said in my Broken Arrow entry, I was going to find another Jeff Chandler movie to watch and this is it. Robert inspired me to watch it since he watched the German Blu-ray, which I don’t have. The German Blu-ray is 1.85:1 and though it may...

Entry #19 Garden of Evil, 20th Century Fox, CinemaScope. Interesting Western shot on location in Mexico about four men hired by Susan Hayward to go on a trek to a gold mine where her husband is trapped in cave-in. Some of the men are more interested in lifting some of the gold than helping to...

Yes, because it is completely different takes and even different running times.:thumbsup:

I take that as a challenge! :D Just realized I've had the Kino Blu-ray of Duel in the Sun sitting on my shelf unwatched for seven years now. And checking my viewing log, the last (and only) time I saw the movie was on DVD 20 years ago. I'll rectify that by adding it to the challenge this...

Entry #18 Broken Arrow, 20th Century Fox, 1950, Technicolor. This is an early example of a Western to show Native Americans in a sympathetic light. James Stewart after rescuing and patching up an injured Apache boy, is then on good terms with the tribe, and the military decides to use him to try...

Entry #17 The Big Trail, Fox Film Corporation, 1930, Grandeur. This is a very good seminal Western, featuring a twenty-two year old John Wayne in his first starring role, and it is plain to see that the John Wayne persona was already in full swing. Though he would spend the next 9 years making...

Entry #16 Apache Rifles, 1964, 20th Century Fox. Unfortunately I don’t have a lot to say about this movie because frankly it wasn’t very good, and a bit hard to follow. This was late in Audie Murphy’s career, when he just wasn’t getting good parts anymore. I originally purchased it from Vudu...

Entry #15 Santa Fe Trail, Warner Brothers, 1940. This one tells the story of Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan), classmates at Westpoint who go on to battle against abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey). Keep in mind, movies are entertainment, not history lessons, and...

Entry #14 Cimarron, 1960, MGM, CinemaScope. While the 1931 version of Edna Ferber’s novel may have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, in my humble opinion, the 1960 remake is a much better film. Shot in ’scope and color, it captures the beautiful sweeping vistas, has a much more epic feel...

I’ve never heard of this movie, but despite how much you didn’t like it, everything you said about it really makes me want to see it. And iTunes has it in HD. It’s going on the wishlist!

Entry #13 The Shadow Riders, TV movie, 1982. This one is a bit of a mess, but I’ll try my best to describe it. When the Civil War ends, brothers Sam Elliott and Tom Selleck return home to find that their young sisters and Sam’s girlfriend (Katherine Ross) have been kidnapped by a Confederate...

Entry #12 The Law and Jake Wade, MGM, 1958, CinemaScope. Another pretty good Western staring Robert Taylor as former bank robber who has now reformed and become a lawman. His former partner-in-crime, Richard Widmark, is about to be hung, and because Talyor felt he owed him something, he springs...

Entry #11 Jubal, Columbia Pictures, CinemaScope, 1956. Jubal is a Shakespearean Western, starring Glenn Ford in the titular role as a down-on-his-luck cowhand hired by ranch owner Ernest Borgnine to eventually become foreman over a jealous, rotten-to-the-core Rod Steiger. Borgnine’s beautiful...

Entry #10 Bend of the River, Universal Pictures, 1952. This is a fine Western starring Jimmy Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann. Stewart is a reformed man leading a wagon train of settlers bound for Oregon. Arthur Kennedy, joins up when Stewart rescues him from a lynching. During a Shoshone...

Entry #9 Fort Dobbs, Warner Brothers, 1958. In anticipation of Cheyenne coming out from the Warner Archive next month, I was in the mood for some Clint Walker. In Fort Dobbs, he plays Gar Davis, a character very much like Cheyenne, in that he is likable, sensitive, and misunderstood. He’s...

Entry #8 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Warner Brothers, 1971. This was a moody, atmospheric anti-Western set in 1902 where entrepreneur McCabe (Warren Beatty) sets up a gambling house/whorehouse in a dead little town in Washington State, and a feisty Cockney madam Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) strikes a...

Entry #7 California Conquest, Columbia Pictures, 1952. I had already watched this and planned to post about it this morning even before Robert made his post. It’s just a strange coincidence that we both watched it at the same time. Anyway, this movie is a peculiar one, and I found it a bit hard...

Entry #6 Conagher, 1991, TV movie. During the 1990s Turner Network Television did a lot to keep the Western genre alive and made a few quality productions to boot. Conagher is one of their early efforts and is a really well made adaptation of the Louis L’Amour novel. Sam Elliott is a drifter, a...