2nd best, Shirley !?
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My Shoot the Living Pray for the Dead blu-ray was looking the other way when I typed that.
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1948 was a cracking year for westerns. 1949 seems less so.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford 6/10)
Montana (Enright 5/10)
Colorado Territory (Walsh / 7/10)
Noticeable injection of romance and colour into the genre at this point with Colorado Territory the only one that had the balls to play it for tragedy at the end although I’m not sure that as much to do with the Hays code as any artistic decision. Yellow Ribbon is the weakest of Ford’s army trilogy I think and Montana is entertaining enough but definitely playing to the masses with it’s love story centre and musical interludes. 1950 I know will be a lot better for westerns.
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Working my way through a few things. On the one hand: Marcello Mastroianni movies, on the other, the Death Wish franchise. I love contrast 
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Hmmm the last movie I watched … An American in Austen where it mixed drama and passion a very good epoca.
Zorro and the Three Musketeers was more like “Mark Damon and the Four Wine Fanatics” 
I think Gordon Scott looks like Mark Damon 
Not a good film, but at least it had Giacomo Rossi Stuart 
