Westerns > C 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)

Oh Boy, Hubby's film choice!

Advantages: Good music and scenery
Disadvantages: John Wayne!

...his choice. His choice being The Cowboys which was when John Wayne was at his peak so I am told. The film sees John Wayne playing the role of William Anderson who is a 60 year old ranch owner who is trying to get his cattle to market as this will be his last year due to his age. He does not have any cowboys as they have all deserted him to go in search of gold. One of his friends suggests he goes to the town school and recruit the boys to help him ...
...he has 10 of the boys at his ranch and he is training them up to help him. During the training of the boys an older man turns up who I believe is called Nightingale and joins them. Nightingale helps with the teaching of the boys and soon finds himself as their role model. They are successful in training them and they soon set off on the 400 mile journey with the cattle to get to the market. Will they all arrive and sell the cattle and what life lessons ...

sewbizzie 06.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Cowboys (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

You're Burnin' Daylight!

Advantages: Excellent story, fantastic cast
Disadvantages: for a western... none!

...I watched a lot of the Western Genre of films. They are my Mother's favorites, so of course she introduced them to me. I can still remember watching this film for the first time and absolutely loving it. As a kid I thought it was really cool to see a film where a lot of the characters were just about the same age as me, and they were doing things that adults thought they couldn't. Not only were they taking on adult roles, but they were successful ...
...evening. I showed him the section in my DVD case that had movies he was allowed to see, and he sat quietly on the floor looking through titles. Finally he said, "Can we watch this one?" In his hand was my copy of John Wayne and the Cowboys. It'd been ages since I'd seen the film, and truthfully I'd forgotten how much I really enjoyed it. I've also created another fan, because my nephew loved it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Rahielli 10.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Cowboys (DVD)

A unique movie and story about real men.

Advantages: A very different representation of the man, excellent performances from all.
Disadvantages: Made in 1967.

...a movie about George Armstrong Custer that was made in 1967? The answer my friends is in the actor playing him. Mr Robert Shaw. I am a great fan of the actor Robert Shaw. He was the classic British actor, handsome ( so women tell me ), charismatic, extremely dynamic, an excellent actor who was both a " becoming " actor, i.e. he actually became the characters he played in his real life ( off the set during shooting ) so that he could accurately present ...
...) was this one - Custer of the West. And the reason is that he created a characterisation of a well known and documented personality who was everything Robert Shaw wasn't and instead of following the standard Custer format, he added his own slant on the story and as such in this movie he has created a character who is exceptional and very different to the role modle but using the historic ( or not - see below ) facts that has become a major element ...

Blackcat01 13.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Custer Of The West (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)