Two aging cowboys (Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea), former partners, meet years after they split up due to their differing sense of morality (i.e., one didn’t have a sense of morality) and tentatively join up on a job, along with a young cowboy. Along the way, a young woman joins them, trying to get away [...]
After my disappointment with the generally-acclaimed The Proposition last month, I was a little wary of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning revisionist Western, but that wariness turned out to be unfounded. Eastwood plays a former gunslinger asked to come out of retirement in order to track down a man who beat up one of the local, um, [...]
I’d heard really good things about this Australian Western, but I’m starting to think that there’s an element of relief that someone made a half-way decent Western within the last five years. Because it is half-way decent, but I don’t think it was really that great. When a former gunslinger’s younger brother gets captured by [...]
