Go West (Metro-Goldwyn, 1925)

. . Magical . . Fatty Arbuckle, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, WC Fields, all comedians had to Go West or be a Paleface sooner or later but Buster Keaton did it best. This 69-minute 1925 classic set the standard.   Down and out in Indiana, ‘Friendless’ heads first for New York, then boards an […]

Gun The Man Down aka Arizona Mission (UA, 1956)

. . James Arness on the big screen in a cloud of gunsmoke . . Gun the Man Down is in many ways little more than a mid-1950s black & white B-Western. Gunsmoke had recently moved from radio to TV and James Arness was its star. Arness and Gun the Man Down’s director Andrew V […]