Feb

An array of Westerns – and other films

Well, in the fifties we were treated to plenty of Westerns at our local cinemas and these below cover some of them – some well known, some not

First BELOW we have an unlikely pairing, I would have thought, although I really liked both of them.

Rio Bravo was a top rate Western.

‘The House on Haunted Hill’ ‘was filmed in Emergo where we saw, in one sequence, a skeleton ’emerge’ from the screen into the audience by way of a contraption fitted into each cinema with ropes and pulleys being used so that the skeleton hovered over the first few rows of the auditorium.

It was more laughable than scary.

Vincent Price was on great form in the film

BELOW – wo pretty well-known ones and you could well see these two as a good programme

BELOW – An Amaerican town – Sarasota – puts on the Western bonanza of films.

I can’t say I know any of these films – although there are some pretty well-known stars of the era – certainly Randolph Scott – to a lesser degree Sterling Hayden in ‘Top Gun’ and James Arness better known to TV viewers

Westerns

ABOVE – Randolph Scott again in one I do know ‘Seven Men from Now’

August 31, 2016 igsjr

Gun the Man Down ABOVE

Gun the Man Down a“B-Western . Not that it’s not a low-budget western (this film was shot in nine days)—the cast is relatively small, and the set (much of this was filmed at the Jack Ingram Ranch in Woodland Hills,