October Movie List Ping
As always, pass along your recommendations, especially on good “conservative” films. Freepmail me if you want off the list.
Clint Eastwood - High Plains Drifter.
“Kate” not a western but excellent action packed, female John Wick.
Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall!
I will always love the old westerns and rugged cowboys. Anything with John Wayne gets my attention (my ringtone is “Fill Your Hand You Son of a B****”) I really like Tom Selleck as a cowboy too, Monte Walsh and Quigley are staples.
Next weekend - At Lone Pine California, where a LOT of westerns were filmed
https://lonepinechamber.org/event/lone-pine-film-festival-3/
And their Museum of Western Film History
I just watched a fascinating British spy film called “Red Joan” about a very old woman in the late 1990s or early 2000s suddenly accused of treason by spying for the Soviets during and immediately after WW II. The central theme is whether it is morally justified to commit treason in furtherance of world peace and the capacity of one individual to affect the course of history. The woman’s adult son (probably in his 60s in the film) has to come to grips with the fact that his mother was a Soviet spy.
It’s a real good guys versus bad guys movie, so I would consider it a conservative film. It is slow moving and won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I found it enjoyable, even with poor continuity and skips in parts and some horrendously over-the-top type-casting of the Soviet says who recruit Joan. The critics really bombed it.
There is a bit of sex (brief), extra-marital affairs, and a bit of homosexuality (via an old black and white photograph) used for blackmail. There is no profanity or drug use.
Bad Day at Black Rock…….from 1955……..wonderful.
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Cry Macho is a hot mess. Don’t waste your time
Can’t think of many recent ones, but Kelly’s Heroes is among my favorites.