Jon Hall had acted in a minor role in a Republic B western with John Wayne, but this was his first starring role in an A-budget Western following his debut in John Ford’s THE HURRICANE. He is good at handling stories set in the open, and he would make many more pictures in this genre […]
In the background, we detect a solitary rider, while in the foreground a gun sits on the table. Having watched For a Few Dollars More, we prepare to hear a bullet. However, what seemed like a barrel looked to be a piece of wood. The lone rider who we saw in the background, is asked
The Argentinian Martin Donovan is a filmmaker, but he should not be confused with American actor Martin Donovan. The former Argentinian donned some arthouse fame in his thriller Apartment Zero (1988) which features Hart Bochner, who plays an ambiguous stranger who seduces his way through an apartment building. Mad at the Moon was Donovan’s second
It seems to be the start of a Charles Manson cult regarding the film “It’s Not Me”, my previous statement might sound like I’m being sarcastic or sour but I genuinely hold a lack of regard for The Criterion Channel because all its films holding some semblance of cult bearing are bland and don’t come
Herzog has always been fascinated by the human experience rising to meet the greatest challenges of the human experience such as living within the mouth of a volcano, the darkest voids of the earth and getting into the mind of a man who only spends time among grizzly bears. In his latest documentary ‘Theater of
In ‘Outlaw Posse’ it looks as if the writer and director Mario Van Peebles took a list of some of the most interesting Westerns in the world and tried to make a script from it. In this Western, there is any number of parts that are found in other films that can safely be regarded
Death After Dusk can be classified as an American Western film laden with thrilling slashing elements. In the beginning of the film, writer/director Chandler Balli and co-writer Travis Lee Prine show a female character who comes to the bar where her sister Sarah (Katerina Townsend) works, in the town of Buck Creek walking alone through
