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movie Gone to Texas
Was so glad to find this movie.Have wanted it in for many
Sam Elliott is good in this movie
I love Sam Elliott.I bought this because I like Sam Elliott, Tennessee, and Sam Houston. Nothing is particularly factual here and the picture quality of the DVD stands a lot of improvement. But a decent watch, when tired of everything else on your shelf.

OK for a Cold Winter Day
This is not the best TV movie ever made, but it's got it moments.In particular, several actors truly bring to life the people they portray.John P. Ryan personifies the jerk history knows David Burnett to have been.Richard Y�iquez and Peter Gonzales Falcon had roles much too small, as General Santa Anna and Juan Seguin, but they played them so very well.Sam Elliott, particularly in exhibiting Houston's oratorical skill, was fascinating.It comes closer to portraying the time than do many other depictions of the Texas Revolution.
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No studio was better than Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox atdishing out lovingly textured Americana, of which this movie is a primeexample.The outlaw gets canonized as an American Robin Hood, anhonest farmer who, with post-Civil War Missouri overrun by corruptagents of the Railroad, had no choice but to start robbing banks andtrains to achieve a measure of social justice the System wouldn't provide. Tyrone Power as Jesse is quietly out-acted by Fox's emerging star HenryFonda as brother Frank.The supporting cast is solid--Randolph Scott,Nancy Kelly, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine (as Bob Ford), Jane Darwell,Donald Meek--but the liveliest thing in the movie is Henry Hull, playing anewspaperman whose editorials invariably prescribe that whomever he'sdenouncing be "taken out and shot like dawgs." Fonda, Hull, andCarradine re-created their roles the following year in Read more

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Jesse James rides again
A fun movie to watch that added to the legend of Jesse James.Was he the Robin Hood of the west as the movie protrays?Who cares, this is just classic old time western fun.A great cast that Includes Tyrone Powers Jr., Henry Fonda and Randolph Scott!!That is three aces right there.Follow the adventures of the James boys as they are almost forced to attack the evil railroads and the robber barons that ran them.Doesn't that sound familar in this age where many people distrust the big corporations of today?Really though, do not get to philosophical over this.It is a western, and a good one at that.

Awful, just awful
Whatever significance this film has, it derives from the stellar cast. Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda do a credible job portraying Jesse and Frank James despite a screenplay that takes criminal liberties with the historical record. You may find it entertaining, but don't come away from it thinking you've learned anything useful about the James boys. The distortions become all the more shocking when you realize that there were still people alive in western Missouri who remembered the original people and events when this silly thing was released.

Enjoyable movie, but historically inaccurate
"Jesse James" has talented actors, a quality script, and attractive, colorful cinematography. However, it is wildly inaccurate from a historical perspective. The way Jesse James is lionized in this movie is hard to stomach if you know the facts. I will concede that Jesse was a colorful, brave man who loved his family, and had a tough life growing up, but he was also a thief and a cold-blooded killer. That should be remembered when watching this movie, which is at least 50% fiction.Typical Hollywood propaganda. ... Read more

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Could have Been a Lot Better
Chisum shows John Wayne nearing the end of his great career and still great. The movie is superficially faithful to history - there was a Lincoln County War, John Chisum and Lawrence Murphy were the main antagonits. John Tunstall a supporter of Chisum was murdered, probably at Murphy's behest. And Pat Garrett and Billie the Kid were there and Bonney did seek out Chisum for help. And Billie did revere Tunstall. This is all in the movie, so the pieces were there for a truly great Western....
100% John Wayne
Another great John Wayne movie. How can you beat a movie with the Duke in it?? This is no exception. Good guys vs. bad guys. Gunfights. Great cowboy fare. If you love John you will love this movie.

Another Epic
A typical John Wayne movie and I have enjoyed most all of his westerns.He was a great cowboy.Miss him.
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This massive, in-depth study of the dark Western icon comes off with mixed results. Trying to capture the whole life, (warts and all) of the lawman-criminal-brother-fortune hunter, director Lawrence Kasdan gains points for sheer scale, giving us a rich epic painted in dark colors with gritty settings. But the visual poetry and extensive foreshadowing ruin the dramatic drive. Some scenes have as much impact as stalker movies; you're just waiting for someone to get knocked off. As Earp, Kevin Costner is not afraid to look rumpled and play colorlessly (as in Read more

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Clinton-era hyperbole; a belabored mess.
10,000 gunshots, 650 thunderclaps, and 180 minutes later you are finally done with Wyatt Earp -- and what a tiresome three hours it has been. Cliched and simplistic, Kasdan's opus intends to be a great epic about a legendary frontier American but winds up rendering a monumental bore of a character.
Wyatt Earp
If you have seen Tombstone, this is the perfect follow-up to fill in the gaps. Excellent actors and good portrayal of the old wild west

This Sleeper Took Me By Surprise

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Geronimo The Legend
This movie is more than simplely good quality acting , by Wes Studi , Jason Patic , Roert Duvall, Gene Hackman and Matt Damon , it express the emotions of men on both sides who wanted only the best for their people ,and country.
No Good Guys, Few Bad Guys
Geronimo successfully hid out from cavalry for an entire year before being captured. Starring Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman and Jason Patric, the movie is great in showing the deceptions the US government foisted on the Apaches - but it's primarily about the cavalry soldiers. I would have liked to see more from the Apache's side.
Great Movie, ignorant review
However I have to address the ignorance of the reviewer from New York and his problem w/ the apparent "political correctness" of showing the American Indian in movies as a tragic people who were the victims of genocide and showing white settlers as land hungry, lying, treaty breakers. Guess what, that's what happened so get your head out of the sand. Those are some one-sided books you listed, and yes of course there were "bad Indians" who did some terrible things, guess where they learned it from? From the 500+ years that the Mexican, Spanish and European armies spent raping, pillaging, scalping and murdering the native people who lived here before you. Read "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown if you don't believe me. Anyway, this movie gives both sides pretty evenly if you ask me. And I think we can give "Dances w/ Wolves" a break here. I mean how many "evil red skin" movies have been made? I think one "noble savage" flick was past due, and isn't really that out of line. ... Read more

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Are my glasses all that dirty?
Others will write better reviews than mine, and my purpose is to compliment theirs, but I have one gripe, and that is why can't they produce a clearer transfer?The sound is also weak. I do not remember Steve McQueen looking so sickly when I saw it in the theater, but the sickness come through worse with the fuzzy reproduction.

western classic
This film, faithful to Horn's autobiography, is beautifully photographed.
Still a favorite and still a classic
I hadn't seen this flick in more years than I care to remember. It still gave me that old western thrill and re-captured me.Steve was really cool yet played a realistic human being. He died like a man with his boots on. ... Read more

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On to Kansas
DARK COMMAND is a good, old-fashioned western.The movie takes places in Kansas on the eve of the Civil War. Not just anywhere in Kansas, either - the movie's set in bloody Lawrence, the hotbed of guerilla activity during that war.Perhaps no guerilla leader was more notorious than Kansas's William Quantrill, the school teacher turned raider who fought against the Union until his death in 1865.
interesting and rare John Wayne movie
This Civil War era movie was very interesting as it tried to follow a generalized campaign of the very infamous Captain Quantrell, theConfederate leader of raiding party's into the North. This was not one ofJohn Wayne's best pictures but it ranks up there as being rare andinformative. A must see for true John Wayne fans. ... Read more

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Could have Been a Lot Better
Chisum shows John Wayne nearing the end of his great career and still great. The movie is superficially faithful to history - there was a Lincoln County War, John Chisum and Lawrence Murphy were the main antagonits. John Tunstall a supporter of Chisum was murdered, probably at Murphy's behest. And Pat Garrett and Billie the Kid were there and Bonney did seek out Chisum for help. And Billie did revere Tunstall. This is all in the movie, so the pieces were there for a truly great Western....
100% John Wayne
Another great John Wayne movie. How can you beat a movie with the Duke in it?? This is no exception. Good guys vs. bad guys. Gunfights. Great cowboy fare. If you love John you will love this movie.

Another Epic
A typical John Wayne movie and I have enjoyed most all of his westerns.He was a great cowboy.Miss him.
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Would work a lot better if it was not about Billy the Kid
Robert Taylor was only 30 years old when he played the title role in the 1941 film "Billy the Kid," but he still seems too old for the role.However, this actually works in favor of the story being told in this film, not that it has much to do with the historical facts regarding Billy the Kid, even though the script is based on Walter Noble Burns's book "The Saga of Billy the Kid" (although Taylor gets props for learning how to shoot with his left hand for the film).Read more

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Cromwell, Oklahoma, 1924: an oil boomtown full of saloons, cathouses, mud-and-crude-oil streets, bootleg whisky, and gun-toting roughnecks. Technology had overpassed the Old West, in the form of Model T's and oil rigs, but the mentality had stayed much the same. Add to that a population that's a bit tweaky from a combination of cocaine and morphine that had been going around, and you have a recipe for trouble. Enter Marshall Bill Tilghman, a contemporary of Wyatt Earp. Tilghman had made a silent film, Read more

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One era into another
Real life lawman, Bill Tilgham, was a giant in cow town law enforcement in the 1880's.
We need more Tilghman movies
Amazingly, 3 of the 8 reviewers (myself included) are related to Tilghman....which says more about Hollywood than the descendants of this great man.There is so much material from his life to base movies on and it simply hasn't been done for some reason.
A Good Effort with a Great Western Actor
Just who are our Old West heroes?Should they be vicious thugs like Jesse James?Lazy (albeit likeable) bums like Butch and Sundance? The outlaws get all the press but it was the folks like Tilghman who deserve our admiration.In recent years, some of the lawmen have gotten some credit; Wyatt Earp may or may not deserve admiration, but Tilghman certainly does.This film treats the last days of the last of the old west lawmen, a man whom Masterson called "the best of us all".Sam Elliott does a marvelous job of making Tilghman real; the movie, though, needs some work.I would love to see Hollywood apply some real muscle to the story of the Old West lawman, because Tilghman would be the best and only choice for a subject.Bring in Sam Elliott to reprise the role and let him really stretch his legs in this role. This movie though will serve until that happens.Watch this one and remember...this man was REAL and actually died with his boots on. ... Read more

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Apaches' Last Stand.
"Geronimo" (1962) is in the same philosophical line as "Broken Arrow" (1952), that is to say: presenting the Apaches as human beings, not as blood-thirsty savages. Certainly the present film is not a Classic as the other one, but delivers the same message loud and clear.
Rugged Indian Visuals
This is a must see movie for the devout Chuck Connors fan. He's strikingly handsome as the infamous Geronimo. Liberties are taken with historical fact, but the story is fast moving, with lots of battles, and romance.Something for everyone.

Sublime Beauty
Ladies, this is a must see, if only to peer at the resplendent beauty of Geronimo. Spend an hour and a half gazing into the piercing blue eyes of Chuck Connors. The story plays fast and loose with historical facts, butwho cares! After seeing that face, you will hardly remember the story-lineanyway.Some of Chuck's old buddies from "The Rifleman" appear.His leading lady, and second wife, Kamala Devi, lends a demure balance tothe fierce, and grumpy Geronimo.You will watch it over and over again, justto see the magnificent bone structure, and animal magnetism ofGeronimo.Whew! ... Read more

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Olfactory!
Anyone who has played Hearts of Iron II - Doomsday knows this is not realistic. Nor a historifal simulation of possible third war outcomes. Expletive deleted.

wayne's "the alamo" is better,but this low budget tale moves fast and is still quite good
i found this little gem in a 3 for $10.00 bin at a store nd i'm glad i found it. i had never heard of it before but i must say it is very good and the battle scenes are good. sterling hayden is very good as jim bowie and he's supported by a nice and very talented group of actors. this really needs to be put out on dvd!
what a man jim bowie
republic pictures was going to do this with john wayne, but they wouldn't let him direct and didn't want to make it the epic that he wanted. wayne got mad left the studio,after working for them for years and never worked for them again. the studio cast sterling hayden in the role of jim bowie and made the movie their way. not as much fun as wayne's alamo story but this little movie has that epic feel about it and it does have a rousing battle at the end, but like wayne it has a few slow spots . also like wayne's history is changed to fit the filmmakers needs, so it isn't very true to the facts. still this story of the alamo and jim bowie is a fun and exciteing little movie . ... Read more

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Audiences overlooked this film, one of the better westerns in several years, featuring yet another terrific performance by Jeff Bridges, America's most underrated movie actor. As James Butler Hickock, he captures the sense of a man at the end of his career, one of the first media superstars who discovers that his legend is more burden than blessing. As he heads toward his final hand of poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he flashes back to his younger days and the events that built his reputation, even as he copes with encroaching blindness caused by syphilis. Walter Hill blends action and elegy, utilizing a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Read more

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Myth vs "history": MYTH wins!
WILD BILL is great...vastly under rated--like Walter Hill's other masterpiece-manque,Jesse James/Cole Younger gang LONG RIDERS
A Psychedelic Look At 'Wild Bill'
If there was ever a psychedelic western movie, this has to be it. It's so bizarre, at least compared to most westerns, that it was tough to know where to start in describing this bizarre film.
Movie characters behaving like ... characters in a bad movie
I popped this disc out with 20 minutes left to go, unable to bear the ludicrous turns of plot. This film started out well enough, with a gritty Western atmosphere and plenty of loud, smoky gunplay as Jeff Bridges' Wild Bill Hickok shoots down men by the roomful. Bridges is a scruffy, perpetually hungover and somehow likable Wild Bill Hickok. He chews the scenery like an out-of-control rock star. It's fun at first, but ultimately his character is hard to care for. That's important, because from the get-go, you know what's coming for Wild Bill at the end. For that reason, the filmmakers' biggest challenge was to make you care for ol' Bill. But Bridges and the scriptwriters fall wide of the mark. (In contrast, Keith Carradine sets the world-weary gunfighter bar high with his portrayal of W.B. in "Deadwood.") Sure, Bridges's Wild Bill is humorous and quirky, but his character does so many outrageous, over-the-top things -- punching, insulting, and generally running roughshod over folks -- that you can't help but think "Oh, he's askin' for it" or "No real gunfighter would do that!" The real Hickock was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall, an no-account drifter who had lost to Hickok in cards. The Jack McCall of this film, however, is out to avenge his mother, a former lover of Hickok's who, her son thinks, was cruelly abandoned by the gunslinger turned professional gambler. But it gets even better: McCall -- SPOILERS AHEAD -- pays a motley crew of lowlifes a sum of one thousand dollars (today worth about, what, a million?) to kill Hickok. They catch him by surprise while he's -- get this -- coupling with Calamity Jane on top of a poker table. (For me, that's when the movie jumped the shark.) But then the bad guys, instead of killing Hickok right there on the spot (which is usually what hired killers do) force him and other residences of his hotel to play poker. Why they did this I never did find out, because that's when the screening of "Wild Bill" was cut short by the eject button. --MellowMonk.com ... Read more

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When the Legend Becomes Fact
There's no Hollywood romanticism in director John Sturges' hard-hitting account of the O.K. Corral aftermath. "Hour of the Gun" (1967) remains among the great unheralded Westerns, with superb performances by James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan. The role of Wyatt Earp is a perfect fit for Garner -- it's too bad he didn't appear in more Westerns of this caliber. Far superior to Sturges' overrated "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957).

IMHO ....superior to Gunfight at the OK corral ..
I am happy to add my review to the others here....who , like me, prefer this to what the critics site as the superior "Gunfight at the OK Corral"...
Excellent!
I don't know the real history of the gunfight at the OK Corral. I saw the recent movie TOMBSTONE with Kurt Russel and Val Kilmer and found it thoroughly enjoyable but I never considered it to be "historical". It was just hysterical.
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Buffalo Bill
its a well done movie, good entertainment,Joel McCrea's a good actor, and I can't think of him doing a bad movie

Hero of War Bonnet Gorge
Rule #1 - If you want history, read a book.
Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill
Well,so this Western biopic is wildly off from an historical point of view, but, nevermind, as entertainment it fills the bill and more. BUFFALO BILL is the kind of wholesome, patriotic film that fifty years ago provided solid good entertainment with good production values--and we kinda miss its kind today. McCrea never did a bad job of acting in any of his films, and here he keeps the action going, even when it becomes a bit desultory during the second half of the movie. He really is a pleasure to watch and hear...so easy in the saddle and with his lines. So, lay back and enjoy this film, and with family. ... Read more

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There are two big reasons for watching this film
There is some talent behind the making of THE OUTLAW: the acting of Walter Huston (THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE) and Thomas Mitchell (HIGH NOON) and the cinematography of Gregg Toland (CITIZEN KANE). All this talent, however, goes to waste behind the weak plot and dialogue, the limp directing by Howard Hughes, and the talent-less acting of the featured candy, Jane Russell.
This is a pretty boring movie.....
The love trangle story does not work and the screenplay needed a lot of work.Howard Hughes was many things, but his ability to be a story teller for the cineama always got mixed results.They were not bad, but sometimes they were not that great either.

"You're not gonna die. I'll get you warm..."
Sherriff Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) and Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) are simply the best of friends...until Billy the Kid (Jack Beutel) shows up in town and then steals both Doc Holliday's horse and his beautiful girlfriend "Rio" (played by lusty, busty, 19-year-old Jane Russell!). Holliday somehow forgives and befriends Billy the Kid (turning his back on his old friend Pat Garrett in the process) and together they get into trouble with the sherriff, who shoots Billy the Kid. Lucky for Billy, he's taken to Rio's house where she takes care of him (serving ALL his needs and desires!!!) and nurses him back to good health.
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Not your typical western
Paul Newman stars as Billy the Kid, only this Kid has psychological overtones. Depicted as being generous though with a self-destructive streak (all part of the Kid's legend), Newman goes a bit off his rocker when his older and respected mentor/father-figure Turnstall (played by Colin Keith-Johnston) is murdered, and he avenges his death. Four men were involved in the murder, and Newman kills two of them before the other two begin chasing him. Friends of his manage to kill the third man, but Billy gets the fourth at Pat Garrett's wedding celebration. Garrett (John Dehner) then goes after Billy and kills him.
Gore Vidal...what do you expect?
I agree with Seaside, Ca. He's dead on and the Hamlet characterization couldnt be more accurate. Billy the Kid Goes Method
There is a moment in this heavily stylized western where a character, for no real reason, rolls around in the dirt moaning "You're not him! You're not him!". This scene could be a great metaphor for the entire film; because the movie is definitely NOT about the real Billy the Kid. This movie is about Paul Newman turning in a weirdly over-the-top performance and everyone else in the film looking on, aghast. True, there are some good scenes, and Newman has his good moments. He's intense, that's for sure, and also extremely funny, although not always intentionally, I suspect.
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CLUM'S STORY IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS.
The narrative of John P. Clum's broadly varied activities is one of the most dramatic in U.S. history, his tenure as Indian Agent at Arizona's San Carlos Reservation, 1874/77, being particularly noteworthy and forming the subject of this film starring war hero Audie Murphy as Clum. During his assignment to San Carlos, Clum established the first Indian tribal police and court system, using the former to capture the wily Geronimo, convincing the renegade that he was surrounded by a large group of warriors, far from the case. By accomplishing all of this and more, Clum eliminated any possible requirement for continued deployment of a United States Army cavalry regiment at San Carlos, which erased profits from provisioning for the Army and made Clum's presence less than heaven-sent for the mounted troopers. WALK THE PROUD LAND is based upon incidents to be found within Woodworth Clum's 1936 biography of his father, which is the principal source for the screenplay written by the capable pair of Gil Doud and Jack Sher. Unfortunately, Doud ("To Hell and Back") and Sher ("Shane") fail to utilize the most dramatic elements of Clum's story, replacing them with a collection of banal contrivances which serve only to dissipate the feature's impact. Filmed with the wide-screen Cinemascope process, and with sublime Technicolor, the work is delightful to the eye, and benefits as well from the stylish efforts of costumer Bill Thomas. A top-notch performance is given by Anne Bancroft as an Apache warrior's widow who is "given" by the tribe's chief to Clum and who becomes his strongest ally against the Agent's enemies from within both the cavalry and the tribe. Audie Murphy's native earnestness is very effective in his portrayal of Clum, with his palpable lack of emotive flexibility being of no consideration here, and he is well supported by Bancroft, sturdy Charles Drake as his closest comrade, winsome Pat Crowley as his wife, Tommy Rall as his Indian blood brother, and character actors Addison Richards and Morris Ankrum. Many good hands were not utilized properly during the creation of this film, and since Clum's travails were largely for nought, Geronimo being released by his successor, leading to nearly 15 years of unabated Indian wars, a bittersweet and indeed revelatory quality would have been more effective in lieu of numerous scenes depicting lamely comedic children and romantic frippery that have no basis in fact.