Western

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Art and Gil return to the frontier town of Bridger's Wells. Known only so far as to be disdained, the young cowpokes cause quarrels thanks to Gil's combative temperament. When he learns that former flame Rose Mapen left for San Francisco at the start of spring, he begins downing whiskey in Darby's Saloon and bridles at the suggestion that he and Art might be implicated in a recent spate of cattle rustling...

Michael Gordon & Theatre of Voices – A Western

Assailed by Howard Hawks and John Wayne for its marshal cut adrift, lauded by some viewers as an allegory against McCarthyism and containing in Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly one of the most memorable pairings ever on screen in spite or perhaps because of their twenty-eight-year age difference, High Noon the touching and steadfast Fred Zinnemann movie Western already...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - The Coen Brothers' first foray on Netflix feels curiously well suited to the format: curious because beyond the vagaries of the term 'anthology', which on film has sometimes meant multiple directors and is nowadays more often used for television shows whose series are self-contained, straddling the line between more conventional movie making and episodic or serialised television, what The Ballad of Buster Scruggs most resembles...

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