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“Johnny Guitar”: One of the Greatest Westerns and the Furthest Extreme of the Hollywood System.   Nicholas Ray’s movie, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is a theory of cinema in motion. The Western is the prime political genre, and Nicholas Ray’s “Johnny Guitar,” from 1954, is one of the greatest Westerns, but its political ideas are hardly the source of its enduring—and controversial—power. What makes the movie is the performances by its lead actors, Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, which are different in kind from any others that I’ve seen, including by those actors elsewhere. Crawford plays Vienna, who owns a lonely outpost of a saloon and gambling house, Vienna’s, outside a small Western town. Its value is in the future, though—the railroad will be coming through and will turn the settlement into a boom town. 

       Here’s a gloriously greasy,          sweaty, hairy, bloody and              violent Western.   It’sdelicious.

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“For a Few Dollars More,” like all of the grand and corny Westerns Hollywood used to make, is composed of situations and not plots. Plots were dangerous because if a kid went out to get some popcorn he might miss something.So Westerns had situations, instantly recognizable. The man in the black hat strikes a match on the suspenders of a tough guy at the bar. Two gunmen face each other at each end of a long alley.
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                                                                 Clint Eastwoods’ First Acting Role!   Ambush At Cimarron Pass.

Sgt. Matthew Blake of the Seventh Cavalry, on a detail from Fort Revelry, leads his men through Apache territory during the period of the Indian Wars. As they come through a pass, they find that a group of former Confederate soldiers have them covered with their rifles. The Southerners are suspicious because Apaches in Union uniforms have attacked them and taken their herd. Blake relates that Apaches have killed all his men except four and their scout; the Union soldiers have been escorting Corbin, a prisoner under arrest for selling guns to the Apaches, to Fort Waverly and are carrying thirty-six repeating rifles that Corbin planned to sell. Blake and the Confederate leader, Capt. Sam Prescott, decide to join forces despite the disapproval of Keith Williams, who hates Yankees because his mother and sister were killed in the war. When Blake taunts him, Keith is about to shoot in response, but Prescott stops him. At night, Apaches drop a bound woman near the white men, and as the soldiers go to help her, the Indians steal their horses and apprehend Cob.

               John Wayne in 70mm Widescreen !

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John Waynes’ Breakthrough Role, The Big Trail in 70mm Widescreen 

Raoul Walsh’s 1930 Western The Big Trail doubled as a night of entertainment and something of an unexpected history lesson for me. Not only did it feature a twenty-two year old John Wayne in his first starring role, but also the film was the largest production to be shot in the short-lived (1929-30) 70mm Grandeur format—which with its 2.1:1 aspect ratio appears to be the earliest-known commercial widescreen configuration according to my exiguous research.Though abundant in visual detail—including 

 Copy that!  Charlton Heston is Indiana Jones

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.If adventure has a name, it’s…Harry Steele? Though it sounds macho, the name somehow lacks the cachet of Indiana Jones, but in his leather jacket and fedora hat actor Charlton Heston gives Harrison Ford a run for his money as an intrepid explorer searching for a valuable relic in Secret of the Incas. Director Jerry Hopper’s exotic yarn can’t compete with Steven Spielberg’s thrill-a-minute blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark, but extensive location shooting in Peru, lush