A Knife for the Ladies (1974)

It's October and time again for some Weird Westerns! In this first of two Halloween episodes, Pax and Michael are joined by Shawn Robare to discuss Knife for the Ladies, in which Jack Elam plays an ornery sheriff forced to team up with a young private detective to solve a series of Jack the Ripper-like murders in a dying Western town.

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Comanche Station (1960)

Michael and Pax finish watching the Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott Westerns with Comanche Station, also starring Nancy Gates and Claude Akins.

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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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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Boss (1974)

For the month of May, Pax and Michael are picking movies released within their birth year. First up, Pax picks the Blacksploitation Western Boss from 1974 starring Fred Williamson.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Michael and Pax continue April Fools Month, talking about movies that are Western-connected if not actual Western movies themselves. For this episode, we talk about Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure featuring time-traveling historical figures like Billy the Kid.

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Bloodrayne 2 - Deliverance (2007)

Happy April Fool's Month! In this episode Pax and Michael cover Bloodrayne II: Deliverance which features Pat Garrett and a vampire Billy the Kid!

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Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Michael and Pax continue exploring the Ranown Westerns with Budd Boetticher's Buchanan Rides Alone, starring Randolph Scott and also featuring one of our favorites, LQ Jones. And Pax reads a Western detective novel, Holmes on the Range.

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Shanghai Joe (1973)

Pax and Michael are joined by their good buddy Jeeg to discuss the 1973 East meets Western, Shanghai Joe starring Chen Lee and Klaus Kinski.

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Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

Michael and Pax celebrate the 150th episode of Hellbent with last year's Bass Reeves mini-series starring David Oyelowo, Lauren E Banks, and Forrest Goodluck. And guest-starring Barry Pepper, Shea Whigham, Dennis Quaid, and Donald Sutherland. 

Pax also talks about his recent guest-appearance on the Authorized Novelizations Podcast discussing Theodore Sturgeon's novelization of The Rare Breed.

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My Little Chickadee (1940)

Pax and Michael foray once more into western comedy with the Mae West classic, My Little Chickadee, from 1940 co-starring WC Fields.

Michael also picks up (but hasn't read yet) the Weird Western novel Red Rabbit and Pax checks out the Young Guns 4K SteelBook.

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