Haven’t seen anything by him, but seems like an interesting director. Oh yeah, I know to which movies will be dedicated future days.
I just watched Conquest of Cochise (1953). I watched it many years ago and couldn’t remember it too well. It will certainly annoy those who care about accuracy as it makes a mockery of the actual history. The film itself is absolutely hilarious and definitely worth a watch just for that reason. I also watched another William Castle western, The Gun That Won the West (1955). This was also very amusing with a lot of stock footage from other films. I’m inspired to watch a few more. Perhaps I’ll check out ‘Masterson of Kansas’ next.
My Charles B. Pierce journey has began:
Winterhawk - not bad at all, although they could come with something more dramatic for the finale. The kills are so inventive! But if Injuns’ combat tactic shown in this picture is close to reality, no wonder they lost. 70%
Hawken’s Breed - Peter Fonda in a hippie trapper outfit carrying a long rifle and revolver and imdb rating 2,8 = MUST WATCH!!!
Well, what can I say, it was almost perfect, although I mostly haven’t had idea what’s going on, because only available copy was tvrip in spanish on youtube. So frustrating! Again, some creative kills slightly elevated rating. 80%
I haven’t watched Hawken’s Breed yet but I have a DVD somewhere, so I’ll have to check it out. I just finished watching Wild Times (1980), an excellent TV western starring Sam Elliott.
Just watched Crossfire Trail with Tom Selleck. Not too bad but not great, either. It took while for the action to get going.
Tom Selleck must love westerns. He’s done so many of them. I cannot recall of a bigger star acting in so many westerns since 80s. There should be a topic about his westerns and a poll.
Since the 80s? Excluding the The Sacketts (1979), he’s been in The Shadow Riders, Quigley (Aussie outback western), Last Stand at Saber River, Monte Walsh and Crossfire Trail. Sam Elliott, Sacketts/Shadow Riders co-star, has definitely made more.
The Gunfighter, with Gregory Peck. Damn, really good stuff.
Yes, that is why I said since 80s, except that 1979 movie.
Sam Elliott’s westerns since 1980:
Wild Times (1980)
The Shadow Riders (1982)
Houston (1986)
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
Conagher (1991)
Tombstone (1993)
The Desperate Trail (1994)
Buffalo Girls (1995)
The Rough Riders (1997) and You Know My Name (1999) are debatable since they’re not pure “westerns” but he’s definitely in the lead over Selleck for the amount made.
I rewatched No Name on the Bullet (1959). One of the more original entries. Audie Murphy is still amazingly cool. 
Hopefully there are more westerns where he plays similar characters to John Gant.
We’ve seen several off-beat westerns lately, that were all telling stories of a journey (The Homesman, The Sister’s brothers, Meek’s Cutoff). The eccentric Zellner Brothers came up with their own - of course eccentric - look at the western genre. Probably not for all tastes, and not perfect, but i liked it a lot. Read more about it here:
I’ve actually watch this one in TV yesterday (in cable), and was on to put a few words about it.
The Portuguese title is great The hero, The villain and the damsel very appealing.
I also liked the main actors they did a good job, but I’m not really sure about the film, or the films because both half’s are so different that you can say there’s two different films.
In the end I got a sensation of watching a mix of a Trinita story with something coming out of Alejandro Jodorowsky. It’s different allright but maybe a bit pretentious, still they tried to pull out something out o the ordinary.
3 out of 5 for me mostly for the effort to make a not common film even if it didn’t work for me.
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I watched Audie Murphy westerns! He was amazing. No wonder he made so many.
Tumbleweed (1953) - Tumbleweed is a horse Lassie of westerns. This must be also super cool movie for kids. 4/5
Posse from Hell (1961) - Audie Murphy, John Saxon and few others team up to hunt brutal outlaws. The beginning of the movie could be as well made nowadays and belongs to the most memorable intros. It is extremely nasty and brutal movie at times. Good dialogues.4/5
The Unforgiven (1960) - Not even Lancaster, Hepburn and Murphy together could save this from a disaster. It is weird, feels more like a theatre play than a movie and it mostly sux since the dialogues are horrendous and nothing makes sense. I’d say it is worth watching solely for Murphy’s performance who for once plays a different character. Otherwise it is a stinker. 1/5
They could make a good old classical themed western again ffs. Lately they always end up doing something weird,
This is a great western, in my opinion - unusual, yes … but also compulsive viewing.
When you say the dialogue was horrendous, did you watch in English ? Just asking, as I remember a lot of religious / biblical style of speaking, which presumably was used as a means to convey authenticity for the era.
Yes in English. They used the kind of language you can hear now in redneck parodies.
Ok … I’m due to re watch it again, so I will look out for that.
PS: I’m not a big fan of Audie Murphy’s films, but I also liked his character in ‘The Unforgiven’ … he seemed more relaxed as a supporting actor rather than as the leading man.
Watched “The Sisters Brothers”
Somehow I did not like this western. The characters are not believable and how I tried I did not like them at all. The story is a pretty standard revenge plot with some twist about an easy way of finding gold.
How Warm got Morris to go with him (as Morris was a tough detective) is not cleared.
As a chemical engineer I have problems believing that there is a chemical that reveals gold and give such damage to the body as shown in the picture.I think that this makes it harder to like the movie, even if there is a hidden message in this.
And the ending was also not best, easy and not fulfilling.Leaving questions open.
It is not on my re-watch list.
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Just rewatched
Dead Man (1995) dir. Jim Jarmusch
near perfect movie, its the apogee of the anti-western in my opinion
9.5/10
also a great soundtrack by neil young