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Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)

great audie murphy western

[9/10 · 23 February 2007]

i really enjoyed this western as i always liked audie murphy westerns. also a great performance by walter matthau as the crusty old judge. also gia scala is great as the bad girl with a big heart

i wish they would show this, other audie murphy movies and all the 50's westerns

from universal-international on tcm. also what do we have to do to get these great old western from universal on DVD? "ride a crooked trail" rates up there with me with "the cimmaron kid" "night passage" "the duel at silver creek" and the "unforgiven" as audie's great westerns. they put out old black & white westerns from the 30's and 40's from other studios but why don't they put universal's great color westerns from the 50's out on DVD

Four Brothers (2005)

a great action flick for today.

[8/10 · 20 December 2005]

i really liked this movie.

don't know if it was a conscious thought or not and this is not a criticism.

i think this was an updated version of"the sons of Katie elder" that starred john Wayne & dean martin.

both of these movies had a similar plot of 4 disparate brothers avenging the death of their mother & in the case of Katie elder, of their father. both of these mothers were mothers who gave their best to raise upright sons & really kept loving them even if they were flawed.

in "four brothers", it shows that black & white men can really be brothers in a common cause.