Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Alvarez Kelly was directed by Edward Dmytryk. Dmytrky was a member of the Hollywood Ten, he served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy trials. After a months he testify again, and gave the names of his fellow members in the American Communist Party. This kept directing low budget films [...]
Read moreAlong the Great Divide (1951)
Along the Great Divide was directed by Raoul Walsh. Walsh directed many great action movies, including several of my favorite Errol Flynn movies. Marshal Merrick (Kirk Douglas) saves a murder suspect, Tim ‘Pop’ Keith(Walter Brennan) from a lynching by rancher Ned Roden (Morris Ankrum), whose son Ed was killed. Add Pop’s daughter (Virginia Mayo) to [...]
Read moreThe Glory Guys (1965)
The Glory Guys (1965) screenplay was written by Sam Peckinpah and directed by Arnold Laven. Laven spent more than 30 years as a director of episodic television, the main stay of his career. He got his start during World War II in the U.S. Army’s First Motion Picture Unit. The movie is fictionalized Western based [...]
Read moreAl Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
Ray Nazarro directs “Al Jennings of Oklahoma”. Nazarro cranked out lots of B-westerns for Columbia in the 40′s and 50′s, one year he directed 13 movies. Al Jennings(Dan Duryea) a lawyer leaves Kansas for the Oklahoma Territory after getting into a fight. In Oklahoma he kills his brother’s killer and then becomes a notorious leader [...]
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