The Wind (2018)

Michael, Pax, and their Crestwood House podcast co-host Shawn Robare talk about another weird Western just in time for Halloween. The prairie is full of eerie isolation in Emma Tammi's independent film, The Wind, starring Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles, and Dylan McTee.

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Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

It's Friday the 13th! Pax and Michael are joined by their Crestwood House co-host Shawn Robare to begin the Halloween season with Grim Prairie Tales from 1990 starring James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, William Atherton, and Marc McClure.

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The Tall T (1957)

Michael and Pax are in the mood for some Ranown Westerns, starting with The Tall T. Directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, of course. Co-starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Richard Boone. And based on a story by Elmore Leonard.

Also: Michael checks out a stage production of the classic Shane.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947)

Last episode's The Walking Hills was accidentally a contemporary Western, so Pax leans into that with a similar pick. He and Michael dig into John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston, and Bruce Bennett.

Also: Michael watches Val Kilmer's son in Dead Man's Hand (2023) and Pax reads the first appearance of Marvel's Western Ghost Rider in Tim Holt #11.

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The Walking Hills (1949)

Michael accidentally pulls a fast one and makes Pax watch a non-historical Western, John Sturges' The Walking Hills. It stars Randolph Scott and Ella Raines as two members of a party that enters the desert dunes looking for a lost wagon train and (according to legend) the gold that it was carrying.

But even though the movie takes place in the 1940s, the comic Pax read does not. It's the Sixth Gun mini-series Shadow Roads.

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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)

Pax and Michael touch the plums on Western-comedy The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, starring Goldie Hawn and George Segal.

Also: Michael votes for Lee Van Cleef as a bounty-hunter-turned-politician in The Big Gundown.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Michael and Pax watch the Coen Brothers' anthology movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Plus, Pax listens to the 1001 Stories from the Old West podcast and Michael watches The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) and Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949).

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