Re: Movies
Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 9:55 am
508 - Lonely Are the Brave (1962) - 8/10 - Kirk Douglas is a cowboy who doesn't have much use for modern society. He has no fixed address and sleeps wherever ends up. When he finds that a friend of his has been placed in jail for two years, he decides to get himself arrested in order to break him out. Douglas is very good here and the movie is pretty entertaining.
509 - Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) - 7.5/10 - James Garner stars as a man 'on his way to Australia' who visits a lawless western town undergoing a gold rush. He witnesses a murder in the saloon his first day in town and after he takes the job of sheriff, arrests the murderer (Bruce Dern) and puts him in jail. One problem is that the jail cells don't have bars yet, but that doesn't stop him. The arrested man has a father and brothers who do pretty much whatever they want. This is a fun comedy and Garner is pretty good here. Harry Morgan and Walter Brennan also have supporting roles.
510 - The Shooting (1966) - 6/10 - A couple of miners agree to escort a woman across the desert to her destination. They are trailed by a mysterious gunfighter (Jack Nicholson). The film looks good and starts out fairly well, but I didn't really enjoy it all that much.
511 - The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) - 5/10 - The all dwarf cast plays it straight and it isn't really appreciably worse than other b-movie westerns that I've seen from the 1930s, but it isn't great.
512 - Run of the Arrow (1957) - 5.5/10 - A Confederate soldier can't accept losing the war so he leaves home and heads out west. He befriends an older Sioux scout and earns the right to join the Sioux. He serves as a liaison with the U.S. Army cavalry regiment that is negotiating to build a fort in Sioux territory.
513 - The Naked Dawn (1955) - 7/10 - A bandit encounters a farmer and his wife and hires the farmer to drive him where he wants to go. He also convinces him to partake in a robbery. The farmer starts dreaming of wealth and embraces the seedier side to an extent while his wife sees an escape from her current situation in the bandit.
514 - Vera Cruz (1954) - 8/10 - Gary Cooper stars as a soldier who heads to Mexico after the Civil War to fight as a mercenary in the war between France and Mexico. He meets a gunman (Burt Lancaster) and his men soon after arriving in Mexico. They are hired to escort a Countess to Vera Cruz. There is also a subplot about a valuable shipment of gold. Cooper and Lancaster give very nice performances here in a pretty good film.
515 - Meek's Cutoff (2010) - 6.5/10 - A group of settlers in a wagon train get lost in the desert while on the Oregon Trail. It's got nice cinematography, but is pretty slow moving.