Westerns > S 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 ...

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Review of She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (DVD)

'Jake fell off a horse? He fell.....off a horse?'

Advantages: Magnificent
Disadvantages: None

Silverado was one of those films when I was a kid that I constantly watched bits of but never all of it. The reason for this was because someone in my family had taped over the last 10 or 15 minutes or so with something else, so I never had a chance to watch the entire film. It was an ITV recording as well, so it was littered with ad breaks. A few years ago, it was on Sky Movies, and I recorded it properly, standing guard by the video recorder and ...
...Lone drifter Mal comes to Silverado in search of his sister and some peace, but racism stands in the way of his goal, as the white folk of the town react badly to a black man coming in and drinking in 'their' bar. Danny Glover gives a very calm and controlled performance in that whole 'wouldn't wanna mess with him!' kind of way. The other two men are brothers: Emmet and Jake, played by Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner respectively. Glenn gives a typically ...

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Review of Silverado (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

A Western without John Wayne!

Advantages: good story, good acting
Disadvantages: None from me and hubby

...a cattle baron, Rufus Ryker. Shane is offered work with the family and soon find himself at home with them. Things go bad for the family when Rufus tells them and all the other homestead owners that he has got a new massive cattle contract so he wants their land. The families are not prepared to give up their land though. Shane and Joe decided that they will not be moved and call a meeting with the other homestead owners and they all decide that ...
...to move. Will Joe and Shane be able to keep their homestead and land of will Rufus get his way and win? The story to this film was very good if not a little predictable. I thought that Alan Ladd who played the lead role of Shane did a great job and it was so nice to see another lead role in a cowboy film instead of John Wayne. He managed to bring a lot to his role and show many sides to his character. He was hard and tough with the gun fighters ...

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Review of Shane (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)