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this one's just awful...
What is UP with all the negative reviews ?!!
McCarthy this ain't.....
We all choose which horses we pursue
Beautiful, wrenching movie.

All the Pretty Horses
Starring: Matt Damon , Henry Thomas , Penélope Cruz , J.D. Young , and Laura Poe
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
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Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel, All the Pretty Horses cries for epic length but runs only 112 minutes for theatrical release. Drastically shortened during a lengthy stretch between production and release, this operatic drama feels as if huge chunks are missing, and what remains are fragments of a masterpiece that might have been. Unless a more definitive version is revealed, we must settle for this faint echo of McCarthy's ambitious narrative, in which dispossessed Texas rancher John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) ventures to Mexico in 1949 to revive his fading dreams of cowboy glory. With best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), Cole's odyssey takes him from youthful idealism to rugged, often horrific, and ultimately ennobling tests of integrity.

Much of Cole's ordeal is sparked by his forbidden love for Alejandra (Penelope Cruz), the beautiful daughter of his Mexican employer, whose family honor is threatened by their mutual attraction. A gunslinging teenager (Lucas Black) casts a black cloud over them all, and All the Pretty Horses becomes a test of Cole's ability to navigate a labyrinth of distorted truth, imprisonment, and hard-fought redemption. All of which begs for emotional depth and carefully developed characters, but this truncated film lacks both. Scenes jump from one to the next with obvious gaps between them, lending no opportunity for emotional investment. It's clear that director Billy Bob Thornton is attempting to redefine the Western, and the effort is laudable on many points, notably in its perfect match of visuals and a flavorful musical score. There's much to admire in this film, making its shortcomings all the more lamentable. --Jeff Shannon

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this one's just awful..........2007-06-12

Not much I can say here that hasn't been said by others. "All the Pretty Horses" (the book) was one of the best novels to be written in the past 20 years. "All the Pretty Horses" (the movie) has been edited to a point where it makes no sense.

Also, John Grady and Alejandra are supposed to be 16 and 17 years old, respectively. In a coming-of-age story, that's kind of important. Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz are WAY too old for the roles.

What is UP with all the negative reviews ?!!.......2007-02-25

I think this is a good film as I explain below. Others on this review area disagree. I can only attribute the many negative reviews for this film to a few possibilities: The movie is certainly not as 'complete' as the book. As with any film-adaptation, the movie bears differences from the book ( though it follows the main theme and plot closely ). The main differences being that scenes had to be deleted from the movie that were in the book. Perhaps many reviewers had read the book and were disappointed by the differences. If the movie is viewed as its own entity, I believe it stands very well by itself and is a great work of art

Other reasons that I can only attribute the bad reviews to are these; Maybe the reviewers wanted the cowboy-main characters to be wise-crack, cocky, with-an-attitude kind of guys like sutherland and harrelson in "The Cowboy Way" and other modern westerns. Or, as other reviewers have said, this wasn't a predominately love-story movie, as perhaps billed.

In any event, All The Pretty Horses definitely makes my list of top movies I've ever seen. The main characters have a certain humility and quietness to their character and their way. I imagine this is the way men who roamed the range in the 1940's probably were - Not like today's urban, fast-talking, slick, always having a witty in-your-face comeback, like so many protanganists in movies today. It's refreshing to see the aforementioned humble and courageous type of character pitted against the unfairness of life.

This movie is about decisions. It is about events that we don't want to happen. That we may try to prevent. And then, when these events happen, more bad fortune follows....almost as we knew it would....and it does. This is the unfairness that is real life. But more than unfairness, the theme of courage and holding to one's honor culminate at the end of the movie.

The music is wonderful and appropriate for the western setting. The acting is very good. There is drama, action, the proper building of expectations and tension and then its resolution, and humorous scenes as well. I agree that the movie could have been longer as I was wanting to watch these characters more. But Hollywood wanted a nice, compact, 'western-romance'.....and Billy Bob, the director, wanted to tell his story of the novel on film.....the compromise that resulted was a shorter film than he wanted. Nonetheless, this film is a well-directed and powerful drama which gives life to the mythic frontiers of the old southwest.

McCarthy this ain't............2007-01-29

If you haven't read the book, you will have a much tougher time enjoying this as it is very difficult to follow standing on it's own. If you've read the book before you saw the movie, then feel perfectly free to B!tch about how it doesn't do any justice to McCarthy's novel, because it doesn't. This movie is flawed and edited to the point of incoherence, you are unable to connect with the characters if you are not already familiar with them. It might have one of the worst soundtracks for a piece of this magnitude that I have ever heard. The reason I am able to give it three stars is because I have read all of McCarthy's books and can find some level of enjoyment watching his work be produced visually, but it just doesn't hold up to the novel in any way. If you're expecting a good old love story, then this is definitely not for you. McCarthy doesn't write heartwarming happy-tales for young lovers. His work deals with grittiness, vast landscapes, morality, mortality, and manhood. I think this is actually the happiest of all of his stories, and it ain't that happy. I hope if they make the second book of the trilogy into a movie, which is actually better than this book, they get a production team capable of handling such a large quantity of material. Billy Bob is just not suited to handle something so big. His strength lies in smaller details and stories, like Sling Blade. The supporting cast is fine, however, and Damon as good of a performance as you could give for a flawed script and being miscast.
Their just aren't to many happy endings when it comes to Cormac McCarthy.

We all choose which horses we pursue.......2006-12-18

I recommend this movie because it touches on the following ideas:

1) In the course of your life, you we love someone more than they love you. They will not return your love, for any number of good reasons. This concept is illustrated in the main relationship between Matt Damon's and Penelope Cruz's characters.

2) You will make some promises in your youth, promises that seem like the best solution at the time. No matter how "good" or "moral" of a person you become, you will likely have to choose to break some of those promises, spoken and unspoken. And as you grow older, you will be defined not by whether you kept all your promises, because that is likely impossible, but rather by what concepts you ultimately choose to prioritize and to live by. Alejandra chooses to keep her spoken promise to her Aunt and to not to see or communicate with John Grady further. And Alejandro chooses to break her unspoken and spoken representations to John Grady that she would love him and be with him. And Alejandro also breaks any promises she may have ever made to herself to live free, to pursue her loves and aspirations, and to not repeat the mistakes of her mother's generation. As the Aunt states early in the film, women in that culture do not get the same freedoms and second chances as men. The women in that culture choose whether to acquiesce and promote those double standards or fight against them. Alejandro makes her choice.

3) You may not be able to achieve your own personal dreams or freedoms, but in understanding the pain involved in that concession, you will have tremendous motivation to take advantage of every opportunity to help others achieve their dreams and freedoms. John Grady is not able to get what he wants, but he takes risks to free the old man from his unfair prison, and he returns Rawlins' horse to him.

To be honest, I thought the cinematography was below average, the editing was not fluent, the movie is a little too long, and the shot framings were often 2-dimensional and too close. The opening lighting on the horses running at night looked like they were lit with giant spotlights - totally artificial and wrong for the time period the movie was set in. But I'm a sucker for stories with complex and intelligent moral reasoning, so I recommend this movie with a fast forward remote firmly in hand.

Beautiful, wrenching movie........2006-11-19

With great acting by Damon and company. I could wish for the directing to be a bit better -- probably the editing that was at fault. I could easily have watched another hour of this movie. It's possible that some of the bad reviews come from the promotion of All the Pretty Horses as a love story between Damon and Cruz. It simply isn't the focus of the movie. The focus is more about what you love and lose, your home, your horses, your friends, your honor, and the west itself, being sold to developers at the time.

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ox bow incident
The bleak nihilism of William Wellman...
A Timeless Classic
The Ox-Bow Incident Review

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Starring: Henry Fonda , Dana Andrews , Mary Beth Hughes , Anthony Quinn , and William Eythe
Director: William A. Wellman
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The Ox-Bow Incident is one of the essential Westerns, directed by William Wellman. A study of the effects--and aftereffects--of mob violence, this film (based on a true story) begins with the murder of a popular rancher. Angry townspeople form a posse, find suspects, and, without waiting for a trial, summarily hang them in an expression of biblically tinged frontier justice. But the one cowboy who tried to turn the mob aside ultimately proves that they executed innocent men. Made in 1943, the film features stunning black-and-white cinematography and a solid dramatic sense about what a deadly combination ignorance and self-righteousness can be. Fonda made this film between The Grapes of Wrath and My Darling Clementine, at a point when he was at the peak of his powers as a young actor. --Marshall Fine

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Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.

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Great film for mobbing illustration.......2007-06-20

This film illustrates the mob rule that takes over - when a group decides to castigate someone.

For anyone who has been persecuted, maligned, or mistreated - at the hands of the mob (an evil group of people of any type) - this book is a must.

ox bow incident.......2006-11-07

henry fonda- one of the finest actors ever. terrific in grapes of wrath. this movie deals with the mob mentality. the mob jumps to convict and execute three hapless, full of pity, and innocent men. may we never fall into these circumstances.

The bleak nihilism of William Wellman..........2006-11-06

The theme here is based on William's Wellman's stern, uncompromising study of mob rule, set in the Old West... It is one of tragic misunderstanding, the sort of witches brew of error, impatience and intolerance, which must have often characterized Western rough justice...

Mob fury surrounds a little cattle-town like a fever... Most citizens seem only too eager to join a manhunt for the murderer of a rancher... Henry Fonda and his sidekick Henry Morgan have to go along with the tide, if only for the fact that, as wanderers passing through, they are not above suspicion themselves...

The unofficial posse, under the leadership of Major Tetley (Frank Conroy) comes upon the campfire of three suspects...

On the basis of circumstantial evidence, Tetley exhorts the mob into an on-the-spot trial... Despite the pleas of a few dissenters, a guilty verdict t is quickly reached and a triple lynching is performed...

Then, riding back, the lynch-mob gets the news that the rancher is still alive and the real villains have been taken...

"The Oxbow Incident" was never a box office success, but was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Picture... However the film makes its point, as well as it ever did... It's not only about the social injustice of instant justice; it's also about human nature, all its oddities, frailties and the perils therein... It's often said that it laid the beginning of the psychological Western... That's perhaps too big and ambiguous a claim... What it does possess to a marked degree is keen observation, and a fine distinction that is never difficult to see...

A Timeless Classic.......2006-10-28

The Ox-Bow Incident is one of those seminal films where everything about it looks right, feels right, and sounds right. The acting, directing, and script are almost more accurate than we can stand, given that the main thrust of the story proves how methodically misguided people can be.

Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan play two drifters who happen into a Western town reeling from the murder of a popular and powerful rancher. They join the town's posse, and catch three men in possession of the rancher's cattle. The posse quickly turns into a lynch mob, with Fonda trying to keep things calm and rational.
The story reveals the sometimes dark and disturbing tendency of society to react with haste and violence rather than with reason and mercy. Based on a true story and a best-selling novel, The Ox-Bow Incident is a cautionary tale, but it is also a mirror. One that is easier to break or ignore than it is to look at.

The Ox-Bow Incident Review .......2006-08-26

This is a fine example of the Hollywood of Old type of movie. It is timely for today since we are basically doing the same thing as the characters did to the three cowboys on the Trail. They, similar to us, act on the wrong information and hang the three cowboys. Later on they learn that no one was killed and the real men are in custody.

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Classic Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy
What A Movie!!!!
Chilling Western Classic
Western morality play

No Name on the Bullet
Starring: Audie Murphy , Charles Drake , Joan Evans , Virginia Grey , and Warren Stevens
Director: Jack Arnold
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Classic Audie Murphy.......2006-12-23

People who think Audie Murphy didn't have any acting talent need to watch this movie. It is so not your typical B-Western. Murphy shines as a cold, calculated hired killer -- cast very much against type. The supporting cast lends credibility to this psychological thriller, particularly Charles Drake as the town's doctor.

The plot is simple and well written. This is not about a gunfighter, such as the classic "The Gunfighter" with Gregory Peck. Gant is an infamous hired killer riding into a town and watching as people with well-hidden secrets begin to crumble. Murphy's calm and matter-of-fact satisfaction with the calamity he causes is striking. The surprise ending leaves the viewers with an obvious message...sometimes you have to become evil to fight evil.

You will not be disappointed with "No Name on the Bullet."

Audie Murphy.......2006-11-10

I think our most decorated war hero was type cast in action films,namely low budget westerns. He may have been a better actor than that, if given the chance.

What A Movie!!!!.......2006-03-06

I've been watching movies a long, long time. I've seen many westerns in my time and like most of them. So imagine to my surprise when I found out that until I saw this film I had never seen an Audie Murphy film. Imagine my shock when I watched in amazement as this story unravel. A western, but a different kind of western. A psychological western. Audie is the bad guy. A man come to town to kill someone. Question is who. The town goes bonkers trying to find out his little secret. Paranoia runs rampant throughtout. Everyone is basically played off against each other until the secret is out who Audue is there to take out. Watching the townspeople go nuts was fantastic. Just a tad let down at the end, but seems typical for the late 50's film that it is. I'm not going to give it away. You see for yourself. Now that I've seen this film I want to see other films of Audie Murphy. Enjoy this one. You will not be disappointed if it is a good western you are looking for.

Chilling Western Classic.......2005-06-27

There are people who love to do "lists" on AOL with regard to movies and such, and you can usually tell something about their age and their overall exposure to artistic genres by what they list in terms of their notions of "the best". Most such lists don't don't usually reflect much other than abysmal ignorance of the subjects they address.

Any list of supposed "best westerns" that doesn't include Audie Murphy's awesome "No Name On the Bullet" is about as hare brained as one that doesn't include "The Ox Bow Incident" , "The Virginian", "The Gunfighter", "Broken Arrow", "Red River", "Dodge City", "The Searchers", "Shane", "Rio Bravo", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Winchester 73", or John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy on it.

Fact is , the most decorated soldier...not just of World War Two...but in the entire history of the U.S. Armed Forces...could not only call artillery down on himself while he machine-gunned down an entire enemy rifle company with a .50 calbre machine gun mounted on the back of a disabled, burning tank destroyer (earning a Congressional Medal of Honor in the process)...he could also ACT. AND, if given good material and capable direction, he could do some FINE acting.

"No Name On the Bullet" is vivid, engrossing proof of that contention. This is a western that is anything BUT "run of the mill". Put it up against "High Noon" and it has twice the tension and edginess, and Audie Murphy's "John Gant" would have Gary Cooper's "Marshal Will Kane" leaving town so fast he'd leave a windstorm in his wake.

Murphy's Gant is a hired killer who rides into Lordsburg one day and sets the entire town on edge. Gant's reputation is considerable. He is said to be lightning fast with a six gun and deadly accurate.He is also known to have put many men into the ground, a lot of whom were considered good gun-hands themselves.
Gant's methodolgy is to goad his target into a shootout. In this manner the killing is waived as a "self-defense" claim...quite common and effective in the 19th century West.

In Gant's case, nobody knows who he intends to kill until the event actually goes down. And here in Lordsburg everyone from bankers to miners to saloon-keepers to store-owners worries that it might be THEM...("Everybody has enemies")

From the hour Gant hits town, stress and paranoia begin to take over. People all over town are convinced that THEY are the targets and some neighbor of theirs might be the one who hired this killer to "do" them. People turn against each other and the entire town becomes a powderkeg of volatility.

And Gant enjoys every minute of it. He enjoys psychologically terrorizing these people. Playing them. He enjoys the effect his name has on them, how they "kowtow" to him and cringe when he walks by. Oh, he plays nicey-nice and ambivalent at all times. He is polite, well-spoken, obviously sophisticated, educated, and well-read (a friend commented to me once that, if t.v.'s "Have Gun, Will Travel" Paladin character were written to be a clean shaven, babyfaced psychopath, then this would be him).
Yet there is a smug little smirk he carries around with him, and a glinting look that comes into his eyes at times that say.."watch yourself around this boyo...he's not playing with a full deck of cards". Or does he just lack true depth of feeling or conscience?

One intriguing scene has a mob of townsmen accost Gant at the porch of the city hotel. They are going to try to frighten him off...tell him to get out of town before they all cut loose on him. He looks at them withn utter contempt and urges them to have at it. He tells them which ones he's going to kill right off and then tells the rest they can take their own chances before he drops. The mob scatters quickly. They want none of what he is selling. The scene works because of the steely-eyed believability of Murphy's performance...AND because of the psychological awareness by the audience that this IS Audie Murphy on this porch...someone who in real life could street-slap "Scarface".

Gant is a very complex character as played by Murphy. He is both likable and scary at the same time. And Murphy the actor works the nuances that swing him back and forth BETWEEN the likable and the scary in brilliant fashion. This is GOOD acting
here. Murphy delivers a cowboy "boogeyman" on par with Robert Mitchum's evil preacher in "Night of the Hunter", and, on the strength of this performance in "No Name", one would have to consider that Audie Murphy could have turned in a hair-raising Norman Bates in "Psycho" if Anthony Perkins had not gotten the role.

Everyone else in this film does a great job. Filled with familiar character-actor faces throughout, the story moves along with nary a drag and just pulls you into its multi-faceded story line and holds you there right to the end.

"No Name On the Bullet". Remember that title. If you're a fan of westerns,or good movies in general, you need to be aware of it and sit yourself down to watch it sometime. It's a "Good'un".

Western morality play.......2005-01-13

Audie Murphy excels in this low-key suspenseful western. His portrayal of [...] John Gant is one of his finest roles: stoic, pragmatic and cooly emotionless, yet not without humor and even a soft side. Those who like Audie Murphy westerns will enjoy this movie.

The rest of the cast is great, and the suspense created by the characters not knowing which town citizen will be Murphy's victim is truly nail-biting. The over reactions and false conclusions of those who feel they will be the victim lead inevitably to tragic consequences.

At a compact hour and seventeen minute run time, this movie is a lot of fun and doesn't waste any time getting right to the action. A forgotten western gem that has finally debuted on DVD.

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"Man in the Saddle (1951) ... Randolph Scott ... Columbia Pictures Classic Westerns"
All action colorful Randolph Scott western from 1951
Man in the Saddle 1951
It's a Randolph Scott film........
Better Randy Scott Western

Man in the Saddle
Starring: Randolph Scott , Joan Leslie , Ellen Drew , Alexander Knox , and Richard Rober
Director: André De Toth
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Though well short of the classics he would go on to make with Budd Boetticher (Seven Men from Now, The Tall T, et al.), Man in the Saddle is measurably superior to most of Randolph Scott's other '50s Westerns. The script has enough characters, criss-crossed revenge subplots, and tortuous romances for a miniseries; yet somehow, within a B-movie running time, director André De Toth manages to give all of them enough attention so that the movie makes sense, even threatens to get really interesting. He also finds distinctive ways to stage standard set pieces like, say, a saloon shootout. And there's a cumulatively amazing fistfight that starts in a mountain cabin, totally uses up that set, then spills downhill through snowfield and waterfall. Randy's character is a more complicated fellow than usual, and the Scots-Canadian actor Alexander Knox, best known for his Oscar®-nominated turn as Woodrow Wilson, makes a creepily compelling range baron. --Richard T. Jameson

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In MAN IN THE SADDLE we see Randolph Scott in an archetypal role as Owen Merritt, a man of few words, unerring aim and unbreakable principles, who swallows his pride when the woman he loves marries for wealth. But when her wildly jealous husband vows to ruin Merritt's ranch, Merritt strikes back. A satisfying combination of action, romance, and breathtaking high-desert scenery, MAN IN THE SADDLE also features Tennessee Ernie Ford in a rare movie appearance.

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"Man in the Saddle (1951) ... Randolph Scott ... Columbia Pictures Classic Westerns".......2007-04-08

Columbia Pictures presents "MAN IN THE SADDLE" (1951) (87 mins/Color) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox & John Russell. --- Directed by André De Toth and released in December 2, 1951, our story line and film, A rancher is forced to stand by as his girl friend is lured away by a wealthy neighboring rancher. When the neighbor is killed, Scott is accused of the murder, and must clear himself. After a blood-spattered fistfight with a gunslinger and several gun battles, Scott consoles himself with schoolteacher Ellen Drew. Based on a novel by Ernest Haycox, Man in the Saddle was the first of the lucrative collaborations between star Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown --- some of the stand outs of the film: seeing "Tennessee" Ernie Ford without a mustache singing "Man in the Saddle"; Alfonso Bedoya's too brief scenes as a cook; the color photography of the high country, and the fight scene there with John Russell --- Randy Scott's a 'peaceable man' in the tradition of Wild Bill Elliott, but don't provoke him you'll soon see the other side of the coin --- It becomes an open war after Richard Rober kills brothers Camerone Mitchell and Richard Crane who work for Scott, then everything breaks loose.

Under André De Toth (Director), Harry Joe Brown (Producer), Kenneth Gamet (Screenwriter), Ernest Haycox (Book Author), Charles Lawton (Cinematographer), George Duning (Composer (Music Score), Charles Nelson (Editor), George Brooks (Art Director) - - - - the cast includes Randolph Scott (Owen Merritt), Joan Leslie (Laure Bidwell), Ellen Drew (Nan Melotte), Alexander Knox (Will Isham), Richard Rober (Fay Dutcher), John Russell (Hugh Clagg), Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (Bourke Prine), Alfonso Bedoya (Cultus Charley), Clem Bevans (Pay Lankershim), Cameron Mitchell (George Virk), Richard Crane (Juke Virk), Frank Sully (Lee Repp), George Lloyd (Tom Croker), Frank S. Hagney (Ned Bale), Don Beddoe (Love Bidwell), Grant Withers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, James Kirkwood (Sheriff Medary) - - - - Randy Scott had a quiet gentleman nature about him which is not seen in the films of today ... Randy took his job and his responsibility to his audience very seriously ,,, would not settle for anything less than his best ... same was true in his personal life.

SPECIAL FEATURES BIOS:
1. Randolph Scott (aka: George Randolph Scott)
Date of birth: 23 January 1898 - Orange County, Virginia
Date of death: 2 March 1987 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California

Special footnote, George Randolph Scott better known as Randolph Scott, was an American film actor whose career spanned the sound era from the late 1920s to the early 1960s ... his popularity grew in the 1940s and 1950s, appearing in such films as "Gung Ho"! (1943) and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938); but he was especially famous for his numerous Westerns including "Virginia City" (1940) with Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, "Western Union" (1941) with Robert Young and "Ride the High Country" (1962) with Joel McCrea (a coin was flipped to see whether Scott or McCrea would receive top billing, and Scott won despite having a slightly smaller role) ... his long fistfight with John Wayne in "The Spoilers" (1942) was frequently cited by critics and the press as the most thrilling ever filmed; they were fighting over Marlene Dietrich ... another smash hit film together that same year called "Pittsburgh" (1942) once again with Dietrich, Scott and Wayne --- Daniel Webster defines "Legend", as being a notable person, or the stories told about that person exploits --- well by the time Randolph Scott made his best films he had long established himself as a legend in the film industry --- they say practice makes perfect, if that is true by 1958 at 60 years of age he was the master with these oaters from the 50s ... "The Cariboo Trail" (1950), "The Nevadan" (1950), "Colt .45" (1950), "Santa Fe" (1951), "Sugarfoot" (1951), "Fort Worth" (1951), "Man in the Saddle" (1951), "Carson City" (1952), "The Man Behind the Gun" (1952), "Hangman's Knot" (1952), "Thunder over the Plains" (1953), "The Stranger Wore a Gun" (1953), "Ten Wanted Men" (1954), "Riding Shotgun" (1954), "The Bounty Hunter" (1954), "Rage at Dawn" (1955), "Tall Man Riding" (1955), "A Lawless Street" (1955), "Seven Men from Now" (1956), "Seventh Cavalry" (1956), "Decision at Sundown: (1957), "Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend" (1957), "The Tall T" (1957), "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958), "Ride Lonesome" (1959), "Westbound" (1959), "Comanche Station" (1960) --- Scott's age seemed to matter little, they only came to see another Randolph Scott film and always got their money's worth --- Scott's films were good and getting better becoming classics --- so if you wonder "What Ever Happened To Randolph Scott", just rent or purchase one of his films and you'll see he's never left us.

2. Joan Leslie
Date of Birth: 26 January 1925 - Detroit, Michigan
Date of death: Still Living

3. Ellen Drew (aka: Esther Loretta Ray)
Date of Birth: 23 November 1915 - Kansas City, Missouri
Date of Death: 3 December 2003 - Palm Desert, California

4. John Russell
Date of Birth: 3 January 1921 - Los Angeles, California
Date of Death: 19 January 1991 - Los Angeles, California

5. Alfonso Bedoya
Date of Birth: 16 April 1904 - Vicam, Sonora, Mexico
Date of Death: 15 December 1957 - Mexico City, Mexico.

6 André De Toth (aka: Sâsvari Farkasfawi Tóthfalusi Toth Endre Antai Mihály) (Director)
Date of Birth: 15 May 1912 - Makó, Csongrád, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Date of Death: 27 October 2002 - Burbank, California

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Total Time: 87 min on DVD ~ Sony Home Video ~ (8/06/1996)

All action colorful Randolph Scott western from 1951.......2007-01-04

MAN IN THE SADDLE was the first of six westerns that Hungarian director Andre de Toth made with veteran western star Randolph Scott. No quite up to Scott's later collaboration with Bud Boetticher, which commenced in 1956 with the marvellous SEVEN MEN FROM NOW. Nevertheless, MAN IN THE SADDLE is a very worthy contribution to the genre. This film also marked the first teaming of producer Harry Joe Brown, with Randolph Scott as associate producer and was known as a SCOTT-BROWN PRODUCTION.

The story was from a novel of the same name by Ernest Haycox. Owen Merritt (Scott) had lost his sweetheart Laurie (Joan Leslie) to local cattle baron Will Isham (Alexander Knox) Isham tries to buy out all the local ranchers by fair means or foul. Merritt resists being drawn into a fight for Laurie or over Isham's land grabbing venture fearing that it will be taken for sour grapes. Plenty of action on the way to the final showdown with Scott assisted by his ranch hands and close-neighbour Nan Melotte (Ellen Drew). The film is memorable for its wonderful night-time photography and a marvellous extended fight in a mountain shack between Merritt and Hugh Clagg (John Russell), which really did "bring the house down". Tennessee Ernie Ford makes a brief appearance and sings the title song. High quality transfer to DVD

Man in the Saddle 1951.......2006-04-11

In MAN IN THE SADDLE we see Randolph Scott (1898-1987) in a archetypal role as Owen Merritt , a man of few words , inerring aim and unbreakable principes , who swallow his pride when the woman he loves marries for wealth . But when her wildly jealous husband vows to ruin Merritts Ranch , Merritt strikes back . A Satisfying combination of action , Romance and breathtaking high-desert scenery , MAN IN THE SADDLE also featured Tennesse Ernie Ford (1919-1991) in a rare movie appearance . Great plot and wonderful outdore scenery and Randolph Scott..what more do you need ! . High Qualty digital transfer . Recommended

It's a Randolph Scott film...............2005-10-14

...what more do you need? Scott does what he does best in this above average western made with high production values and a touch of angst. Good classic supporting cast and good locations as well as excellent direction make this oater stand alone and stand out in Scott's film's from the 50's.Good,clear DVD issue make this a must.

Better Randy Scott Western.......2005-08-14

MAN IN THE SADDLE (1951) is a very fine little Western, directed by the underrated director Andre De Toth, with a fine screenplay written by Kenneth Gamet. Despite the formulaic story line, the film never drags or dawdles. Randy Scott illustrates, once again, all the fine acting characteristics that made him one of the top ranking "Western" actors of all time. Alexander Knox, an interesting choice for the villain, adds much to the story. Other members of the cast, including Alfonso Bedoya and John Russell, round out this solid oater, well worth investigating. Finally, the title song is sung by none other than "Tennessee Ernie Ford," and remains in the memory long after the movie's images are gone....

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A Quickie from Vitagraph Pictures!
The "Duke's" First Starring "B" Western

Ride Him, Cowboy
Starring: John Wayne , Duke (II) , Ruth Hall , Henry B. Walthall , and Otis Harlan
Director: Fred Allen (II)
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John Wayne's road to stardom needed some giddyup in the early 1930s; after a leading-man turn in The Big Trail, he quickly fell into B-movie obscurity. While waiting to vault to first-tier status in 1939's Stagecoach, he honed his talent with a set of six B-Westerns at Warner Brothers, shot in 1932-33. The series allowed Warners to recycle footage (and plots) from a string of silent Westerns made with Ken Maynard, with the young Mr. Wayne stepping into Maynard's saddle. Ride Him, Cowboy is the best of these snappy little films (under an hour each), a very entertaining number in which Wayne is introduced to a feisty horse named, of all things, Duke. Duke would feature in the later films, as would Wayne's harmonica playing. The movie has some wild stunt riding and some very amusing dialogue (someone urges a pokey storyteller, "Skip that part and get down to bedrock"). And for a cheap B-movie, there's some exceptionally inventive camerawork by Ted McCord, who would go on to shoot The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and East of Eden.

Wayne, 25 years old, plays the same naively heroic hero in each of the six films. He's lean and handsome and not yet grown into his talent. But you can see how much the camera likes him--as his future director Howard Hawks might have put it--and how much that famous stride is already coming into step. --Robert Horton

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A man is falsely accused of a rash of barn-burnings. When he proves his innocence, he sets about to bring the real criminals to justice.

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A Quickie from Vitagraph Pictures!.......2005-04-22

I've always considered it very strange why Wayne's westerns of the 1930's are not given the same sort of revered status that other western stars like Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers received. Sure they're B movies but so were the films by Cassidy and Rogers. They might not have been as good from a pure technical standpoint, but they weren't awful either.

This was released by Vitagraph pictures which quite frankly was a new one one me. I cannot find anything from this company after 1933 so they obviously were not around very long. But this is actually a pretty well plotted starring vehicle for Wayne as he stars as John Drury who sets out to track down a villian known as the Hawk with the aid of Henry Sims. Well Sims turns out to be the Hawk himself and soon fraoms Drury for murder. This film would mark the first time that Wayne rode "Duke" the devil horse. A good little film although quite rough from a visual and sound standpoint. Decent action.

The "Duke's" First Starring "B" Western.......2000-07-22

John Wayne's first starring "B" Western and the first of a series of six made by Warner Bros. may be the best of his "B" Western output. Good direction and production make this one and the entire series a good one. The studio dressed him like Ken Maynard and put him on a horse similar to Tarzan, so they could use action footage from Maynard's old films. "Ride Him Cowboy," for instance is a remake of the 1926 "The Unknown Cavalier."

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San Fernando Valley
Starring: Roy Rogers; Dale Evans; Jean Porter; Andrew Tombes; Bob Nolan & The Sons of the Pioneers; LeRoy Mason
Director: John English
Manufacturer: Reel Enterprises
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Release Date: 2007-04-13

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Great Memories
Saturday afternoon at the movies
"The Durango Kid B-Western Series ... Bonanza Town (1951) ... Columbia Pictures"
Durango Kid rides again!
Corrupt Town boss vs the ranchers

Bonanza Town
Starring: Smiley Burnette , Luther Crockett , Vernon Dent , Slim Duncan , and Myron Healey
Director: Fred Sears
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ASIN: B0007MANY4
Release Date: 2005-04-05

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Great Memories.......2007-02-07

I now have the two "Durango Kid" movies available on Amazon---both very valuable to my collection of Classics----some of those western movies from the early 50's are great to have-----very enjoyable to watch----the re-touching of the prints is first-rate----there should be more of Starrett's films out---Allan "Rocky" Lane is another----how about Rex Allen?

Saturday afternoon at the movies.......2007-01-20

The Durango Kid series is among the best of the cowboy movies from the 1950s. Fifty + years later, it is still a great movie to sink back with your favorite popcorn and be transported to a time when the bad guys ALWAYS lost and the good guys ALWAYS won.

"The Durango Kid B-Western Series ... Bonanza Town (1951) ... Columbia Pictures".......2006-12-20

Columbia Pictures present "BONANZA TOWN" (1951) (55 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Charles Starrett as the black masked Durango Kid of '40s and '50s B-Western trail, he became as synonymous with the character as Clayton Moore was with the Lone Ranger and William Boyd was to Hopalong Cassidy ... The Durango Kid was an immediate hit with Saturday matinee crowd and a decision was made to continue the character, which Columbia did for an unprecedented 64 series westerns over the next seven years ... when Starrett portrayed the black clad and masked Durango Kid, he rode an Arabian white steed named "Raider" ... don't miss any of the Durango Kid features loaded with action that will leave you wanting more of his B-Western adventures.

Under Fred Sears (Director), Colbert Clark (Producer), Bert Horswell (Screenwriter), Barry Shipman (Screenwriter), Henry Freulich (Cinematographer), Paul Borofsky (Editor), Jock Mahoney (stunt double for Charles Starrett, Al Wyatt Sr.(stuntman) ------ the cast includes Charles Starrett (Steve Ramsay/The Durango Kid), Smiley Burnette (Smiley Burnette), Fred F. Sears (Henry Hardison), Luther Crockett (Judge Anthony Dillon), Myron Healey (Krag Boseman), Charles Horvath (Henchman Smoker), Slim Duncan (Slim, musician), George Chesebro (Hod), Steve Clark (Sheriff), I. Stanford Jolley (Henchman Borger), Zon Murray (Henchman Dirk), Bud Osborne (Stage Driver), Marshall Reed (Henchman Flint), Robert J. Wilke (Henchman) ------ our story continues where "West of Dodge City" (1947), when Charles Starrett (Durango Kid) discovers Fred F. Sears is still alive and up to his old tricks, he slaps leather and hits the trail to justice ... whose behind the marked bills could it be Myron Healey and his old friends ... Smiley Burnette offers some comedy relief and songs that is pleasing to the ears ... wonderful supporting veteran cast with George Chesebro, Steve Clark, Zon Murray, Bud Osborne, Marshall Reed and Robert J. Wilke, all were stock players in every B-Western and Serial you can think of over the years ---- they just don't make 'em like this anymore and Columbia Pictures was one of the leaders of exciting B-Westerns and Serials.

Special Footnote, Charles Starrett was an American actor best known for his starring role in the "Durango Kid" Columbia Pictures western series ... In 1933 he was one of the people who helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1936 signed with Columbia Pictures to become one of the top ten western stars, starring in 115 movies the following 16 years ... in playing assorted sheriff and rangers roles, Starrett gained notoriety for his role as the "Durango Kid", the first film in which he played his famous alter-ego character was known as "The Durango Kid", which was released in 1940, but for some reason, Columbia did not see fit to continue with the series at that time ... the character was revived in 1944 and lasted through 1952. Dub Taylor, as "Cannonball", worked with Starrett until 1946 ... at that time, Smiley Burnette, who had been a very popular sidekick to Gene Autry, was brought in to replace Taylor. Burnette, appropriately enough, played a character called Smiley Burnette ... "The Durango Kid" series combined vigorous action sequences - often with speeded up camera work and spectacular stunts performed by Jock Mahoney - and western music ... each film featured a singing group, and many gave free rein to Burnette's singing and playing ... Starrett, who was independently wealthy, ended his acting career at 48 age when the "Durango Kid" series ceased production.

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1. Charles Starrett
Date of birth: 28 March 1903 - Athol, Massachusetts,
Date of death: 22 March 1986 - Borrego Springs, California

Great job releasing "Bonanza Town" (1951) - Durango Kid, the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the vintage serial era of the '20s, '30s & '40s and B-Westerns ... order your copy now from Amazon where there are plenty of copies available on VHS, stay tuned once again for top notch action mixed with deadly adventure --- if you enjoyed this title, why not check out VCI Entertainment where they are experts in releasing B-Westerns and Serials ---Western Classics, all my heroes have been cowboys!

Total Time: 55 min on VHS ~ Sony Video ~ (4/05/2005)

Durango Kid rides again!.......2005-04-16

Another fine release in the old Columbia studios Durango Kid series, with Smiley Burnette as the inimitable side-kick. This little "B" western entertains royally, with enough shoot-outs and Smiley-humor, as anyone who knows and loves Durango and Smiley can attest. For those who don't know the Durango Kid, give it a try---once you're hooked, the pleasure is contagious!

Corrupt Town boss vs the ranchers.......2001-04-02

In this Durango Kid yarn,Durango(Charles Starrett)goes to a small town to clean it up. 0ne brother,a judge is blackmailed and handled by his evil brother ,thus corrupting the town and letting outlaws run the town and -- the good folks out.

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Sturdy Grade B Western from Republic.
The Three Mesquiteers Do it Again! Santa Fe Stampede

Santa Fe Stampede
Starring: John Wayne , Ray Corrigan , Max Terhune , June Martel , and William Farnum
Director: George Sherman
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An old friend of the Mesquiteers strikes gold and plans to give the trio half the claim. But the town's crooked mayor and his ruthless henchmen have their own ideas. Murder follows in their path, and Stony (John Wayne), accused of the crime, faces a lynch mob that wants revenge!

The 3 Mesquiteers
There was no better proof that Republic Pictures was the Cowboy Hero Studio than thei51 rootin' tootin' shootin' Three Mesquiteers westerns produced from 1936ito 1943. As different trios of actors rode under the Mesquiteers' flag, the films remained rattlesnake-tough, a continual series of chases, rescues, gun battles and fistfights all in the name of law and order.

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Running Time 55 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Sturdy Grade B Western from Republic........2000-11-14

Here we have a rip roarin' Saturday matinee "shoot 'em up" with plenty of black-hearted villains and blazing six-guns. Crooks control the law in Santa Fe Junction. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town to see justice served. When a respected local citizen and his young daughter are ambushed, Stony (John Wayne) is framed for the murder. The bad guys incite a lynch mob to take matters in their own hands. Can Tucson and Lullaby (Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune), held captive at the outlaw stronghold, escape in time? Will the beautiful Nancy Carson, rendered unconscious as she tries to unlock Stony's cell, survive the fire set by the angry lynch mob? Will the real killers be brought to justice? Never fear, the distant thunder of drumming hoofbeats are the honest cowboys and ranchers, who ride down the same section of trail and around the same rocky corner at least three times, as they race to the final showdown.

Before he made the big time in John Ford's "Stagecoach," John Wayne was a familiar face in Grade B Westerns. The Three Mesquiteers was a popular series of the '30s and '40s, based on characters created by Western novelist William Colt MacDonald. Over time, different actors played the roles of the three saddle pals. This typical example from Republic studios includes cliff-hanging Western adventure and light humor. The emphasis is on hard-riding action rather than the intrusive musical numbers that plagued some other Grade B Westerns. Old-fashioned, light weight fun. ;-)

The Three Mesquiteers Do it Again! Santa Fe Stampede.......2000-11-01

John Wayne and his friends, Ray Crash Corrigan, And Max Terhune are very good in this film. My rating of four stars is given, based on the type of movie. Certainly, this movie could not stand up to movies of today, but it stands up well to others of it's day. The story line is very good. It is packed with excitement. It seems that the bad guys have all their ducks in a row and Stoney Brook(John Wayne) will be destroyed by the angry mob, but you will have to watch the movie to find out what happens in the end. I recommend that you see Santa Fe Stampede.

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Manhunt
Starring: Ernest Borgnine , Raimund Harmstorf , Randy Mulkey , Henry Silva , and Bo Svenson
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Tough, laconic Western
SEE THIS WITH "THE SHOOTING"
ride the whirlwind
Existential - Whatever That Means

Ride in the Whirlwind
Starring: Cameron Mitchell , Millie Perkins , Jack Nicholson , Katherine Squire , and George Mitchell (II)
Director: Monte Hellman
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Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty--fit for either shooting to bits or hanging from a tree, whichever comes first. Precisely half of Ride in the Whirlwind's 82 minutes is devoted to tapping the matter-of-fact, absurdist horror of that situation. In the remaining half, the two surviving cowpokes (Jack Nicholson and Cameron Mitchell) seek shelter at a farmhouse where they reluctantly threaten the farmer, accept breakfast from his wife, flirt with his daughter (Millie Perkins), play some checkers, and hope to remain undetected till nightfall.

Somehow, when people speak of the two existentialist Westerns that Monte Hellman made on a single trek into the desert in 1966, Ride in the Whirlwind never gets as much attention as The Shooting. All right, so it doesn't star Warren Oates (though it does have Harry Dean Stanton, Oates's clear successor as sainted American character actor), and Jack Nicholson's screenplay isn't as infatuated with arty enigma or coffeehouse-quaint dialogue as Adrien Joyce's Shooting script. But of the two, Ride arguably cuts deeper as a meditation on things Western, and it's surely the one that would bring nods of recognition from a Parnassian review board comprised of William S. Hart, Harry Carey, and the various casts of The Virginian.

Unforgettable, unbelievable, yet of course entirely believable Zen moment: H.D. Stanton, mere seconds before holding up the stagecoach, steps behind a rock to take a leak. --Richard T. Jameson

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Tough, laconic Western.......2002-04-01

Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay for this little gem, and in the dialogue he captures the flavor of life at that time p