Sentences with phrase «western oater»

Less a plot - driven Western oater, Monte Walsh is more a slow - moving but satisfying contemplation on the end days of the cowboy life.

Not exact matches

One of the key Hollywood actors that specialized in playing western bad guys, Robert J. Wilke can be seen in dozens of oaters from High Noon to Man of the West, almost always as a heartless killer.

The quintessential B - movie lawman, granite - faced, mustachioed Jack Rockwell began turning up in low - budget oaters in the late 1920s and went on to amass an impressive array of film credits that included 225 Westerns and two dozen serials, working mostly for Republic Pictures and Columbia although he was never contracted by either.

A case in point is Peter Fonda's directorial debut The Hired Hand (1971), a sensitive, deliberately paced western which Universal attempted to sell as a combination of an Easy Rider sequel and an action - revenge oater.

Forty Guns wasn't as thematically rich as Run of the Arrow, Samuel Fuller's other 1957 oater, but it was an important bridge between the traditional Fordian Western and the amoral, violent spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.

But the conventions of the Western — even the ones that are very specific to a period — don't work like the conventions of horror; they aren't based on tone, which is actually why oaters hybridize so easily.

The Searchers is an entertaining Western by the quintessential oater duo of director John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance) and star John Wayne (The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo).

, the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen, telling the story of a studio fixer (Josh Brolin) trying to keep his boss and all of his stars happy, even as one (George Clooney) is kidnapped by Communist screenwriters, another (Channing Tatum) may be in league with said writers, and another (Alden Ehrenreich) isn't able to make the transition from oater Westerns to high - toned dramas.

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that -LSB-...]

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that kind of money back.

The filmmaker's fetishes here include Western trappings (from the plot inspired by TV oaters to the mostly - new Ennio Morricone score) and a «roadshow» size and shape (the Ultra Panavision 70 film format).