Archive for the 'Western' Category
Red Pony - 1949
Mitchum, Drama, Western| 1 Comment »Was there any one else better to play Billy Buck, John Steinbeck’s trusted ranch hand, surrogate father figure to a ten year old boy and a smoldering fantasy man for the boy’s mother than Robert Mitchum? No, there was not, and still there is no one.
The longest and costliest movie shoot in the history […]
Track Of The Cat - 1954
Set Your Recorders, Mitchum, Western| 1 Comment »One of the bleakest westerns you will ever see. As far as 50’s westerns go, the family in this picture is as dysfunctional as the Lohan’s. A repressed affection withholding mother; a delusional alcoholic father lusting after the youngest son’s fiance; a sister growing old spinsterish and bitter; one older responsible, moral brother, […]
Rachel And The Stranger - 1948
Set Your Recorders, Mitchum, Western| No Comments »An underated western with subtle comic overtones and elements of suspense. This picture has a great script by Waldo Salt, One of the “Hollywood Ten”. David Harvey (William Holden) is a widower with a young son, Davey. They live on an isolated Ohio farm. He wants his son to be raised in the […]
