The Proud Rebel (Buena Vista, 1958)

. Bucolic . . Despite the fact that Michael Curtiz directed it, The Proud Rebel is actually a rather subtle and successful Western. You may wonder at that ‘despite’ and I would understand that: after all, Curtiz directed Casablanca, the best movie of all time, didn’t he? But Westernwise, in my view, he hadn’t quite […]