Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Francis Dee was born in Los Angeles in 1909, and died in Connecticut in 2004 - reversing the movie star's usual trajectory. She was married to Joel McCrea. Her first film was released in 1929, her last in 2006. I treasure her primarily for three performances: 1) As the spoiled but likeable rich girl in Josef von Sternberg's An American Tragedy (1931), the same role Elizabeth Taylor played...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
... gave the story real depth and moral density, and changed the title. With western movie legends Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott on board, an excellent supporting cast, and ace lensman Lucien Ballard as cinematographer, 'Ride the High Country' emerged as Peckinpah's first fully articulated artistic statement as a film-maker. Nonetheless, he spent such an inordinate amount of tim editing...
Bjørn Stærk's Max 256 Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of movie works better with Cold War communists. Watched: 23 minutes. Buffalo Bill (1944, USA) - Joel McCrea is a simple man out of the West who sympathizes with Indians and feels bad about all those buffalos he helps slaughter. Watched: 49 minutes, which is the time it took for McCrea's unceasing earnestness to grind me down. Phantom Lady (1944, USA) - A man's wife is murdered...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... the funds needed for the five-bout card, which also features top local fighters Floyd Trumpet and Joel McCrea. So far Sinnette has gotten help from Toyota Trinidad & Tobago Limited; Allen’s Funeral Home, Tunapuna; Minister of Sport Gary Hunt; and the Congress of the People (COP). But his promoter Patricia Constantine of Blue Promotion still has not raised half of the estimated $500,000...
