Tag: Westerns

Cover of Ed Hulse's book Filming the West of Zane Grey

Filming the West of Zane Grey — Book Review

August 19, 2023August 20, 2023Shawn Hall1 Comment

For each of the past two classic film reading challenges, I read a Zane Grey Western that had been adapted into multiple classic Hollywood films: Riders of the Purple Sage and Heritage of the Desert. Earlier this year when I saw a book covering …

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In the midst of putting together my list of six books to read and review for this summer’s classic film reading challenge, lady luck smiled upon me when I won …
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe', 2000
Watched on Wednesday August 30, 2023.
One Mile From Heaven, 1937 - ★★★½
It's a shame this film isn't talked more about given Fredi Washington's and Bill Robinson's wonderful performances. It's really a fascinating look at race in […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, 1979 - ★★★½
For better or worse, this TV film adaptation follows the classic novel closely, using direct quotations from the book as voiceover narration. One advantage of […]
High Tension, 1936 - ★★
Our protagonist fixes cables underwater for a living and all we get in the movie is a subpar romance that never elevates to screwball comedy […]
The Comic, 1969 - ★★★½
So many films about the silent era deal with stars struggling with the transition to sound so it’s refreshing The Comic takes a different path. We […]