And Michael also watched a couple of 1930s Westerns: Buck Jones and Louise Brooks in Empty Saddles (1936) and William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy in Partners of the Plains (1938).
Hellbent for Letterbox
Paxton Holley and Michael May hit the dusty trail in search of great Westerns
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Comanche Station (1960)
Michael and Pax finish watching the Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott Westerns with Comanche Station, also starring Nancy Gates and Claude Akins.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Pax and Michael take a listener request and talk about John Sturges' Last Train from Gun Hill starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, and Carolyn Jones.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Westbound (1958)
Michael and Pax welcome back Evan Hanson (the Classic Film Jerks podcast) as we get back to Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott's Ranown Westerns. This time Scott plays a Union officer tasked with transporting gold from California to Washington DC through Confederate-sympathizing territory. Westbound also features Karen Steele, Michael Dante, Andrew Duggan, Michael Pate, and Virginia Mayo.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
The Grand Duel (1972)
Pax and Michael welcome the hosts of the New Classic Film Jerks, Evan and Jeff, to discuss a Lee Van Cleef spaghetti western, The Grand Duel from 1972.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Shadow Riders (1982)
Michael and Pax celebrate a listener's birthday with a Sam Elliott Western, specifically The Shadow Riders, a TV movie co-starring Tom Selleck. It was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and also features Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, and Geoffrey Lewis.
Pax also watches James Arness and Angie Dickinson in Gun the Man Down (1956).
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Cat Ballou (1965)
Pax and Michael talk about the Western comedy Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda as Cat and Lee Marvin as drunken, washed up gunfighter Kid Shelleen.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The War Wagon (1967)
Michael and Pax continue celebrating their birth month with movies from their birth years. This time, Michael picks John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in Burt Kennedy's The War Wagon. The movie also features Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr, Keenan Wynn, Valora Noland, Bruce Cabot, and (briefly) Bruce Dern.
Pax also talks about the comic Ladies with Guns by Olivier Bocquet and Anlor.
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