Westerns > F Westerns

Wayne's Worst???

Advantages: Some good acting
Disadvantages: Bad effects, black and white may put some off

Well stupid me when I said hubby could pick the film as I knew it was bound to be a John Wayne but I never knew just how bad it could be. This being the first film which John Ford directed and the start of the working relationship between Ford and Wayne is shows how old the film is. The storyline to the film is pretty basic with a group of 6 people leaving a town on the stage to head for Lordsberg. The gang include an alcoholic Doctor, an ex-prostitute, ...
...and a lady who is off to meet her husband who unbeknown to everyone is pregnant. The stage is driven by a bumbling fat man who really is funny and he is helped by the sheriff. The stage is dubious about leaving as there are Indians in the area but they are escorted by the American Calvary so they start on their journey. Before long the stage is stopped and the sheriff meets Ringo, an escaped prisoner, played by John Wayne and he is re-arrested and ...

sewbizzie 29.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Stagecoach (DVD)

Why is the Ribbon Yellow?

Advantages: Good story, good acting, lovely scenery
Disadvantages: John Wayne!

...ribbon tied in her hair, she has two of the young men fighting over her and Nathan asks her if she knows the significance of wearing a yellow ribbon and when she says she does he asks who it if for. She will not tell him and he along with the two men are left in suspense. The patrol leaves the Fort and they are soon forced to make a diversion to get the ladies to their stage as they have come across the savage Comanche Indians and do not wish to ...
...interest but I don’t think she added much to the film apart from the side story with her trying to choose which man she wanted to spend her life with. I thought the two young men fighting over her was a bit over the top for this story but they were good actors and did very well with the script that they had to work with. The film was quite strange at times and when watching it I noticed that a lot of the film was shot on location but then a few minutes ...

sewbizzie 28.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (DVD)

Chasing Indians!

Advantages: good story, good acting great music
Disadvantages: John Wayne!

...film sees John Wayne playing the role of Ethan Edwards. It s set in Texas in 1868. Ethan returns 3 years after the war has ended to his brothers house and the family. He is pleased to be back but soon finds he is being asked to go and help the local men fight off a gang of Comanche Indians who have been threatening the people who live in the area and killing for no reason. As the men all set off to find the Indians they soon discover than they have ...
...Ethan returns home he finds the house and the family have been killed apart from his two nieces Lucy and Debbie who have been taken hostage by the Comanche Indians. Ethan and his sort of adopted nephew, Pauly, Ethan found him as a baby and sent him to his brothers to be bought up, set off in search of the Indians with the help of some of the local men with the hope of returning with both Lucy and Debbie but the trail is harder than they anticipated. ...

sewbizzie 09.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Searchers (50th Anniversary Edition) (DVD)

Me, write a bad review? That'll be the day.

Advantages: A solid western with a good lead performance by John Wayne.
Disadvantages: In many ways dated and showing its age in terms of techniques and attitudes.

Overview The Searchers is a classic western starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford. It is regarded very highly both as an example of the Western genre and as a film in general attaining classic status in more recent times despite a less enthusiastic reception upon its initial release in1956. Plot This is very much a rescue and revenge tale. We follow the unconventional hero Ethan Edwards and his eventual companion Martin Pawley in a long ...
...group but they alone go the distance and are willing to see it through to the end, however long that takes. Martin Pawley leaves the woman he loves behind and their to-in and fro-ing though occaissionally irritating provides the emotional base of the film. John Wayne Not being a massive John Wayne film myself I am always somewhat perturbed by his presence in a film for it immediately becomes a John Wayne film almost, a seperate genre in itself. ...

thegoldencat 19.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Searchers (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)