Western

Jonah Hex (2010)

Jonah Hex (2010) was directed by Jimmy Hayward.  Hayward is an animator turned director, he was the animator for the movies -Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998),  Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Finding Nemo (2003). Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) fights for the Confederacy till his commanding officer, Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) orders him to burn [...]

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Alvarez Kelly (1966)

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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 [...]

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Along the Great Divide (1951)

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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 [...]

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The Glory Guys (1965)

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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 [...]

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