Sentences with word «oater»

This isn't your backyard childhood game of cowboys and Indians, nor is it a stereotypical oater in which the heroes fight off attacks from savages.

The story is completely ridiculous and wafer - thin: in his first of many oaters, Flynn is a morally grey buffalo herdsman who eventually stops turning a blind eye to Bruce Cabot's evil doings in Dodge, yet the film has so many show - stopping sequences, the plot becomes unimportant.

A lead villain in silent oaters starring lesser - known cowboys like Lester Cuneo, Bill Patton, and Al Hoxie, Meehan's florid acting style can be enjoyed today in such silents as Blazing Arrows (1922) and Red Blood (1926)-- the now veteran actor usually found himself demoted to that of anonymous henchman after the advent of sound.

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

Young Ones has some interesting twists but falls short as a reworking of a classic Hollywood oater.

But «True Grit» is more of a return to Charles Portis» source novel than a reboot of the John Wayne oater.

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-...]

Improving, embellishing and reclaiming an old - fashioned oater from the vintage studio - cheese bin with such humor and vigor seems truly, truly ballsy.

You could say that the western was already nearing its completion in the postwar films noir set in the sunshine and bluffs of the Old West: homegrown oaters by Anthony Mann and Fritz Lang; William Wellman's Yellow Sky and Robert Wise's Blood on the Moon; Budd Boetticher's subversive Ranowns; Arthur Penn's glass darkly Billy the Kid pic The Left Handed Gun; Brando's filthy One - Eyed Jacks; and even Ford himself with terminal pieces like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.

The original 3:10 to Yuma was ahead of its time, with its psychological underpinnings and more serious themes than most oaters of its era.

At times more in line with «Blazing Saddles» than the grimly bawdy qualities that define many bonafide oaters, «Django Unchained» erupts with a conceptual brilliance from the outset that never fully meshes with its clumsy storyline.

Eventually a little pretentious - with Anjelica Huston's cameo the nadir - but if you love oaters, it's just worth the time.

Based on the 1957 Glenn Ford / Van Heflin picture, Mangold embraces his subject matter with unabashed enthusiasm — along the way paying stylistic homage to oater icons John Ford and Sergio Leone — to deliver a movie that is as complex and character driven as it is packed with lead - spewing action.

If you can get pass or forget the «let me tell you something» tone of the piece, you've got a nicely done oater.

Our guide, Scott Cooper, who adapted an unpublished manuscript by the screenwriter Donald E. Stewart into this handsome oater, has updated the talking points to take account of changed sensibilities.

The limited series struggles to recover from an early peak; in the final 20 minutes of the premiere episode, all the pieces for an epic oater fall into place.

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 former stock company ingénue who had appeared in Leaning on Lettie with comedienne Charlotte Greenwood, blonde Beth Marion (born Betty Goettsche) became a popular B - Western heroine in the 1930s, appearing opposite the likes of Ken Maynard, Johnny Mack Brown, and Bob Steele in unpretentious little oaters that played mainly in the hinterlands.

More often than not unbilled, and only infrequently awarded speaking parts, Smith left films after the 1949 Jimmy Wakely oater Roaring Westward.

Given the script for Shanghai Noon, they've come up with a middling Old West oater that falls flat at least as often as it finds the funny bone.

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.

As if on cue, a swell of new oaters has tumbled into view this year to prove as much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirror.

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).

Based on a manuscript by the late Donald Stewart («The Hunt for the Red October»), this is a proudly traditional oater that travels down old trails with new sadism, as though the Western genre only died off because the movies weren't cruel enough.

There are hints of High Noon, the classic Gary Cooper oater, in that dramatic scenario, especially considering the less - than - positive stance both films take on the virtue of small - town people.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

(Not for nothing, The Wild Bunch was comfortably the highest - ranked oater on our list.)

Directed by «Pirates of the Caribbean's» Gore Verbinski, this over-the-top oater delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but sucks out the fun in the process, ensuring sizable returns but denying the novelty value required to support an equivalent franchise.

In Sydney Pollack's backcountry oater, a jaded Mexican War veteran (Robert Redford) seeks solace in the American West, only to discover that life in the Rocky Mountain State — with its harsh weather, craggy terrain and aggressive inhabitants — is more turbulent than transcendental.

The Ballad Of Lefty Brown premiered at this year's SXSW, and early reviews promise a solid oater that pays off the promise of Moshe's shoestring - budget debut.

/ «Saps at Sea») directs this routine oater that's set right after the Civil War.

The film, directed by David Von Ancken and starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, is a noble but overlong patchwork of elements and themes that were explored better in the 1960s - 70s oaters that clearly inspired it.

This old - fashioned oater miniseries pits the two fellers against one another in a rivalry that can only end with hot lead.

The film should not be confused with Gunfighters of Abilene, a 1960 oater starring Buster Crabbe.

It's well - developed Western fare for those who have a soft spot for all Hollywood oaters, no matter how glossy and glamorized it may be.

12 Strong comes from real life — specifically a covert Green Berets operation that went down in Afghanistan shortly after the Twin Towers fell — but the movie plays like the squarest of John Wayne oaters, riding tall in the saddle with a minimum of casualties.

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.

Yet his comeback «Dead Man's Shoes», with its combination of small - town retribution and the supernatural, is far more successful in importing the oater sensibilities of «High Plains Drifter» to the West Country, while bringing back from the dead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» films.

, 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.

Farr had a more significant role in 1956's «Jubal,» an oater take on «Othello» that was directed by Daves and also starred Ford.

Meek's Cuttoff is the very definition of a slowburn treat, a classical Oregon - set «oater» in which a wagon trail heading across vast, acrid prairies is placed in danger when its party decide to take heed of a short cut suggested by one Stephen Meek.