Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
“Crazier than a mule humping goat.” It’s fitting that Sam Peckinpah’s final western, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973), should be a eulogy for the genre. The entire film… Read more »
Tag: western
Terror In A Texas Town
Dalton Trumbo’s script for Terror In A Texas Town (1958) pits farmer against land owner; it’s a case of free will versus authoritarianism, socialism versus capitalism. These conflicts are rendered… Read more »
Keoma
In Keoma (1976) the past and the present share a space and characters can walk in and out of memories. In Keoma interiority exists in songs on the soundtrack to… Read more »
Westward The Women
Westward The Women (1951) follows Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) as he leads a group of one-hundred and forty women (including Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and Julie Bishop) from Chicago to… Read more »
The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party (1971) opens with a scene of a steer being butchered cross-cut with a scene of sex. The hefer’s savage demise is equated with the violent sex that… Read more »
Taza, Son Of Cochise
Taza, Son Of Cochise (1954) is rather anomalous in the cycle of films made by producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk at Universal pictures as it is a Western… Read more »
Lawman
Lawman (1971) was the first of two films that actor Burt Lancaster and director Michael Winner made together in the early seventies. At the time Lancaster was struggling to find… Read more »
Day Of The Outlaw
Andre DeToth’s masterpiece of the Western genre, Day Of The Outlaw (1959), is one of the most influential and important films of its genre ever made. From Il grande silenzio… Read more »
Django & Django
During the opening of Django & Django (2021) Quentin Tarantino reveals that after completing his film Inglourious Basterds (2009) he contemplated writing a book on the westerns of Sergio Corbucci…. Read more »
Pursued
Released the same year as Robert Mitchum gave his career defining performance in Jacques Tourneur’s quintessential film noir masterpiece Out Of The Past (1947), Pursued (1947) sees Mitchum appearing in… Read more »
