westerns
Last night, I watched the 1953 western The Naked Spur, with Jimmy Stewart, Janet Leigh, and Robert Ryan. Directed by the great Anthony Mann, it's a fun but flawed fairly.
Anyone who can write awesome scenes like this needs to be remembered upon his death.
In 1971, the film Zachariah was released. I had never heard of it until last night, but it seems to be a weirdo western starring Don Johnson, Dick Van Patten, Country Joe and the Fish, Joe Walsh, Patricia Quinn, Doug Kershaw, and the great drummer...
SEK can talk about current films that make billions of dollars all he wants to; readers of LGM know that the movies that really matter are the ones I like..
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.