Westerns > 1961 Westerns

Have I won the most suffering Wife Award yet?????

Advantages: Lovely scenery and music
Disadvantages: John Wayne, weak story, average, bed effects

...must be getting close to the ‘long suffering’ wife award as I let hubby choose the film again and yes you guessed it, John Wayne! John Wayne plays the role of Captain Cutter who is a Texan Ranger and is out looking for wanted men when he finds one aboard a ship and arrests him. The man he arrested is a gambler going by the name of Paul Regret. Cutter takes Regret and heads of back to the headquarters but Regret manages to escape. Cutter is off meeting ...
...gang of gunrunners when in the bar he sees Regret gambling and soon has him back under arrest. Cutter again sets off but things go wring for both men when they are capture and they find they have to work as team to escape. Will Cutter and Regret be able to work together and escape from the massive gun gang and what will become of Regret as he is still a wanted man? Sorry for the very brief plot outline but this is really all what happens in the ...

sewbizzie 10.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Comancheros (DVD)

The Connancheros/The Undefeated

Advantages: Two John Wayne movies in a set
Disadvantages: Both have been on TV several Times

Both of these movies have been on Tv several times before, so I will not dwell on their plots. If , like me, you love John Wayne or are collecting his movies you will buy these anyway, if not well, I'll just say they are not among his best movies. Much of Wayne's best work was done with Director John Ford (Stagecoach), in others he simply goes through the motions. In these two movies, it is the motion phase,don't get me wrong both of these movies ...

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Review of Comancheros, The / The Undefeated (Double Pack) (DVD)

Some say he's dead...some say he never will be

Advantages: Great acting, scenery
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...shift boat. The man is Jeremiah Johnson (played b Robert Redford) He is an ex-soldier, he has arrived in Utah to fulfil his ambition of becoming a mountain man. Jeremiah asks the local shop owner where he can go to hunt. The man gives him directions and Jeremiah sets off into the snowy mountains. Jeremiah comes across an old man who hunts bears. He teaches Jeremiah new skills. He tells Jeremiah that the territory he is heading for is indian territory. ...
...The Crows, are killers. Jeremiah again sets off. Along his route he survives treacherous weather and the fear of the indians. He comes across a house where he finds a hysterical woman. Her husband and son have been killed and scalped by the Crows. Jeremiah helps the woman bury her family. He goes into her house to find a small boy cowering in the corner. The woman insists that Jeremiah take the boy with him on his travels. The boy does not speak ...

rufusredcoat 01.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Jeremiah Johnson (DVD)

Dunbar, not Dumb Bear!

Advantages: Fantastic visuals, Costner
Disadvantages: Can draw it out too long in places

...most powerful films to date, Dances With Wolves is a thoughtful and emotional tale that requires a bit of concentration. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, it features KC as a war hero who is relocated to a post near a tribe of Sioux Indians. The initial grasp of the film makes you think it's going to be one with emphasis on the conflict involving the Sioux, and for the first part of the film, this is indeed how it is shown, particularly as ...
...Mary McDonnell as a love interest for Dunbar. Dances With Wolves is available from amazon.co.uk for £6.98. It's a film I recommend watching, but you need to focus and concentrate. It's not the sort of film you can have on in the background and completely understand. Recommended. ...

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Review of Dances With Wolves (DVD)

Lt Dunbar Dances With Wolves

Advantages: amazing acting and storyline, gorgeous scenery and music
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...battle and the scary looking dances they did around their fires but this was their way of life so I had to accept it. The main Indians which we saw were Holy man and the white woman who was raised by the Indians. They gave excellent performance sand really moved me at times. The one draw back to the Indians was that they spoke in their native language and we had the subtitles turned off at first so was unable to fully understand what they were saying ...
...I thought they all played their roles genuinely and looked the part and the costumes and clothes which they wore made them look like true Sioux Indians. The storyline was great and I loved how they portrayed a soldier from the normal and did not have him attacking and hating the Indians and how they made him want to live comfortably with them and learn about their ways. I think this did show certain parts of the US army in a good light but then ...

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Review of Dances With Wolves (DVD)