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Stranger on Horseback (1955)
Good traditional McCrea Western
Traditional Western done well. Good script with echos of High Noon. Good direction by Tourneur. Well rounded characters fleshed out by familiar 50's actors.
Early Kevin McCarthy, does well in a supporting role. Different type of role for John McEntire, who usually plays decent upstanding characters. As expected, role perfect for Western actor Joel McCrea. The ending sets up as a bit of a surprise but it turns out to be perfectly set up. This is good film for western film buffs.
Only drawback is print's color pallet bit washed out and red tinted. But most would give that a pass as movie stands out as a good 50's western.
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Goof. Continuity
During scenes where sub is searching for thin ice to emerge near Ice Station Zebra, Rock Hudson's captain shirt changes
from black to tan.
Tension at Table Rock (1956)
A must see 50's western
This movie has all the ingredients most Western fans love in their films: gunfights, love triangles, bad guys & a quiet, suffering & misunderstood hero working out his private travails by helping a beleaguered sheriff deal with his own demons. All with a rousing Dimitri Tiomkin score that has a memorable ballad at its core. We've seen these ingredients before in many other Westerns but in this film they seem to work.
Richard Egan non-acting style work perfectly here & the supporting cast boasts small but vivid parts for Angie Dickenson as the siren that starts Egan's private struggle & Deforest Kelly as a smiling, friendly gunslinger. I've seen this film a number of times & surprisingly the film still works.