Tag: Western

‘True Grit’ (1969): John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance is still fresh, funny & exciting

I was trying to think of a movie that reminded me of my old man (to celebrate this upcoming Father’s Day), and since I couldn’t find anything titled, Hilariously Funny/Psychopathically Maladapted Depressive with Sadistic Personality Disorder and Suicidal Tendencies, I turned to ‘ol John Wayne. My old man used to laugh at him…but he loved… Read More ‘True Grit’ (1969): John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance is still fresh, funny & exciting

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‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy

Reduced, these past few weeks, to basically laying flat on my back (they took out 37 feet of my guts—I’m basically a soda fountain now), there hasn’t been much I can do but watch TV and movies. And certainly patterns of comfort TV-watching manifested themselves fairly quickly, including hours and hours of 70s TV (Emergency!,… Read More ‘A Stranger in Town’ (1968): Entertaining spaghetti Western kicks off successful trilogy

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