The Last Western You Watched ?

[Phantom Stranger]

Howdy Everyone,

Nice new site you have here, so I think I'll move this thread over here from the old place. So, plain and simple what was the last western movie you watched? Here's mine:

"Appaloosa"(2008)
-Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen

Plot Synopsis: IMDB

New Mexico.Territory.1882. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye.

Phantom's Review: I loved this movie ! Great acting from all the stars, beautifully filmed and a nice balance of action and humor. A wonderful western.

[Phantom Stranger]

"Curse Of The Undead" (1959)
- Micheal Pate

Plot Synopsis: IMDB



The cinema's first vampire Western! Young women in a small Western town are dying one by one of an unknown malady involving massive blood loss. The Carter family's ranch is being terrorized by ruthless land baron Buffer. And a mysterious black-clad gunfighter with an aversion to sunlight has just arrived in town

Phantom's Review: I've always been a fan of both westerns and horror movies, (especially the classic black and white movies)and on those rare occasions that someone tries to combine the two always interests me.
While this is basically a standard "B" movie. It has some very nice performances from the actors and it maintains, both, a great horror atmosphere (with some cool spooky music)and some classic western action.
If you don't take it to seriously, this is a fun movie.

[Phantom Stranger]

"Trooper Hook" (1957)
- Joel McCrea. Barbra Stanwyck

Plot Synopsis: IMDB
After a band of Indians kill a group of soldiers, Sergeant Hook captures them and their leader Nanches. Among the prisoners is Nanches' son and the boy's white mother captured by them nine years earlier. Hook's assignment is to escort the mother and son to the woman's husband. Traveling by stagecoach they learn that Nanches has escaped and it's not long before he and his warriors show up intent on reclaiming the boy.

Phantom's Review: Well acted, but standard western adventure. Plenty of action and some good performances, but overall, nothing memorable.

[Phantom Stranger]

Santee" (1973)
-Glen Ford

Plot Synopsis: IMDB
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, only to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father-son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that killed Santee's son shows up.

Phantom's Review: Glen Ford was one of the best western actors, but "Santee" was not one of his better pictures.Some decent action, but overall the film is kind of dull.

[Tony O'Donnell ( Tyrell )]

just finished watching a film i got from the States The Long Kill , Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoferson, Waylon Jennings and Travis Tritt. Usual story kids dad killed by old gang memer out for revenge,dads other friends turn up to ride him down along with kid. Not great but not terrible niether.IMHO

[Chris Lampe]

Appaloosa. Twice. Pretty good movie with some good characters.

[Phantom Stranger]

"High Plains Drifter"


Eastwood at his best

[Phantom Stranger]

Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More

Classics

[Jim Holden]

On a Westerns marathon with my son. We last watched "Ride the High Country" "I want to enter my house justified" Great line!

[Phantom Stranger]

"The Man From Del Rio" (1956)
- Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado

Dave Robles, a Mexican gunfighter passing through the town of Mesa out draws and kills a famous outlaw.
He's then invited by a former gunfighter turned saloon owner named Barrister to join a gang he's forming and take over the town.
Instead Robles takes the job as Sheriff and becomes Barrister's enemy.

Phantom's review: A very well acted little movie. Light on action, but has a good story and is an interesting character study. Watch for legendary character actor Whit Bissell as the town drunk. He steals every scene he's in.

[Phantom Stranger]

"Gunfight At Comanche Creek"
- Audie Murphy, DeForest Kelley

Plot :IMDB

Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie) and Gifford goes undercover to try and stop the bad guys.

Phantom's Review: Decent "B" western with some good action and an interesting story. Best part of the movie: Deforest Kelley (of "Star Trek" fame) as a ruthless cold hearted S.O.B. Makes you totally forget kind "Dr. McCoy"
Annoying part of the film: A narrator. It's almost like the film was written as a radio show and then switched to the movies. Completely unneeded.
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[George D Rodriguez]

The original Monte Wash with Lee Marvin on KAUT-TV Channel 43 here in OKC this afternoon

[Pat Schroeder]

I prefer the remake with Tom Selleck. One of his best movies.