Buchanan Rides Alone Review

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Dir. Budd Boetticher

Starring: Randolph Scott, L.Q. Jones

Buchanan crosses over the Mexico border to Argy Town, a not very hospitable place that is ran by the Argy family. After having a run in with the local judge’s son in a bar, the son is shot by the angry Juan, Buchanan gets framed, and gets drawn into the brothers scheme to extort money from the father of Juan, and to cheat each other out of the money.

Slow West Review

Slow West (2015)

Dir. John Maclean

Staring Micheal Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius

Ride Him, Cowboy Review

Ride Him Cowboy (1932) AKA The Hawk

Dir. Fred Allen

Staring John Wayne, Duke, Frank Hagney, Ruth Hall

John Drury (Wayne) is passing through town when he sees a horse on trial and about to be executed. He intervenes and saves the horse, then gets drawn into a manhunt for the outlaw named Hawk that has been terrorizing the area.  

Sukiyaki Western Django review

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
Dir. Takashi Miike
Staring: Hideaki Ito, Kōichi Satō, Yusuke Iseya, Takaaki Ishibashi

A gunman (Ito) gets drawn into a war between two gangs, the red dressed Heike and the white dressed Genji, who are at war over the town of Yuta, Nevada, in this Japanese homage to the classic spaghetti westerns.

Go West Review

Go West (1940)

Dir. Edward Buzzell

Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis

Con man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho Marx), and two brothers Joseph (Chico Marx) and Rusty Panello (Harpo Marx) that aim to find a fortune in gold head west and get inadvertently get drawn into a land dispute between some feuding families.

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

Dir. Burt Kennedy

Starring: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshettet, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell

Latigo Smith (Garner) arrives in the town of Purgatory in order to seek some medical help for an embarrassing affliction. But a case of mistaken identity draws him into a dispute between local businessmen in their fight for superiority.

Support Your Local Sheriff review

Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

Dir. Burt Kennedy

Starring: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Bruce Dern, Walter Brennan

While on his way to Austrailia, Jason McCullough (Garner) arrives in the town of Calendar, where gold was recently which caused the town to devolve into lawlessness. In order to make ends meet while he is in town, McCullough takes the job of sheriff, arrests the son (Dern) of a local landowner and gangleader (Brennan) and causes more violence to come to the town.