. See it if you absolutely must . . You can tell it’s a spaghetti within the first 15 seconds. It starts with a shot

. If you want a Judge Roy Bean film you’d be better off with The Westerner . . “Maybe this wasn’t the way it was…it’s

. . Watch it at your own risk . . I have reviewed well over 1000 Westerns in this blog, the good, the bad and

. . Day of the Weak Film . . This picture got an MGM theatrical release but has all the air of a TV movie,

. . Euro-bad . .  Following on from United Artists’ Viva Maria! of 1965, forty years on we get Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek as the

. Your gray eyes shift warily . . I feel we need an earnest discussion of the merits of NBC’s late 50s/early 60s TV series,

. No Hollywood fort. . Fort Laramie isn’t at Laramie. In fact the Fort is about 100 miles NE of the town. Probably, the Man from

  The man from Laramie He was a man with a peaceful turn of mind He was kind of sociable and friendly Friendly as any

. A very classy Western . . Set early, in 1850s Oregon, starting with pouring rain and a ship in the background, Canyon Passage is

. The Smithsonian of the West . Almost exactly a year ago, I was touring the magnificent states of Wyoming and Montana. My pard-ess and

. . Raoul Walsh’s final trumpet . .    Raoul Walsh was 77 when he directed his last movie, A Distant Trumpet. It was fitting

. . Bruce Surtees, Elmore Leonard, John Sturges – it’s a great combination . . Early 1900s, somewhere down on the Mexican border (“Sinola County”).