My latest home video purchases...!
The Tall T (Budd Boetticher / 1957)
Decision At Sundown (Budd Boetticher / 1957)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher / 1958)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher / 1959)
Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher / 1960)
...If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death (Gianfranco Parolini / 1968)
I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death (Giuliano Carnimeo / 1969)
Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin (Giuliano Carnimeo / 1970)
Have A Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (Giuliano Carnimeo / 1970)
Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (Giuliano Carnimeo / 1970)
Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos / 1993)
More adventures in the Wild West! First, the sparse, lean Western adventures of Randolph Scott in Budd Boetticher's so-called Ranown Cycle (named after
Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Br
own). My personal favorite in the series is the second,
Decision At Sundown.
Then the flashier, trashier Italian stylings of the "official"
Sartana series. This is one of those rare instances of a film series which actually improved and got much better with each individual film! My favorite is probably a tie between the last two. The quasi-supernatural, high-tech avenger that is our title character is played by the great Gianni Garko, with the exception of the middle chapter in which George Hilton temporarily took over.
And finally... perhaps the
definitive take on the adventures of Wyatt Earp, his brothers and Doc Holliday, and the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. I'm referring of course to George P. Cosmatos' rock-em, sock-em
Tombstone from 1993, starring Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. (Granted, Lawrence Kasdan's underrated
Wyatt Earp from the following year with Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid is really good, too. If I may be permitted such heresy, I'd have to say I like Quaid's Doc just a
tad more than Kilmer's! See also the great John Ford's
My Darling Clementine from 1946 with Henry Fonda and Victor Mature, as well as Frank Perry's 1971
Doc with Stacy Keach as Holliday, the awesome Faye Dunaway as Kate Elder, and Harris Yulin as the most sinister Wyatt Earp you'll ever see.)