Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

ma-cortes A cowboy is hired as a foreman for a powerful landowner , but he then helps ranchers to stop the egoistic cattle owner from taking over their lands . As he , subsequently , changes sides and will fight against her , as he helps mistreated settlers who put barbwire to protect their herd . The cowboy fighting for justice will tame his vital code he lives by and supporting other neighboring cattlemen who are harassed by her .This is a moving western dealing with the ordinary conflict between freedom and the need for order and settlements . The picture regards interesting issues such as the economical abuses by powerful owners including violence , and the sexual resources that the beautiful land lady , gorgeous Jeanne Crain , uses to get her purports . Nice and feisty acting by the great Kirk Douglas as the sympathetic as well as impulsive gunfighter . Being one of the first movies that Kirk Douglas made through his own production company , Bryna Productions . Support cast is pretty good , such as : Claire Trevor , Richard Boone , Jay C. Flippen , Jack Elam , Paul Birch , George Wallace , Mara Corday , Roy Barcroft and special mention for William Campbell as a stubborn young gunfighter . Colorful and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Russell Metty , being filmed on location in Conejo Valley , Thousand Oaks , Janss Conejo Ranch , California , and Grand Canyon , Arizona . Besides , a moving , stirring musical score by two uncredited composers , Hans J. Salter and Herman Stein .The motion picture , based on a screenplay by the Western expert Borden Chase , was compellingly directed by King Vidor and lavishly produced by Aaron Rosenberg who financed a lot of westerns for Anthony Man/James Stewart . Although he and Kirk had strong problems , as Douglas and Vidor had arguments , and the latter left the shooting and was fired . However , King shows some his peculiar visual style . In addition , the picture went on to become a box office hit . Vidor directed other good westerns as ¨Duel in the sun¨ , ¨Northwest passage¨, ¨Billy the Kid¨ , and ¨Texas Rangers¨ . And made several classic movies as ¨War and peace¨ , ¨Comrade X¨ , ¨Stella Dallas¨ , ¨Fountainhead¨ , ¨Our daily bread¨ , ¨The citadel¨ , ¨The crowd¨ , ¨Big parade¨ , among others .

greenheart Occasionally, things come up in a movie that you've never really thought about. Today, it was the introduction of barbed wire. It is a common sight in the countryside now and yet there possibly were arguments, fights and even killing when it was first introduced. I rarely ever see Kirk Douglas in a movie that I didn't enjoy. He is extremely watchable as the easy-going, banjo playing, drifter who takes the young Tony Curtis lookalike, William Campbell under his wing. Despite a couple of dodgy editing moments, this is easy viewing stuff and although a hard edge is simmering just below the surface, it is an enjoyable watch that frequently left me with a smile on my face.

Spikeopath Man Without A Star is directed by King Vidor and adapted by Borden Chase & D. D. Beauchamp from the Dee Linford novel. It stars Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell & Richard Boone. Photographed by Russell Metty in Technicolor around the Thousand Oaks area in California, with the title song warbled by Frankie Laine.Dempsey Rae (Douglas) is easy going and a lover of life, so much so he has no qualms about befriending young hot head Jeff Jimson (Campbell). The pair, after a scare with the law, amble into town and find work at a ranch owned by the mysterious Reed Bowman. Who after finally showing up turns out to be a lady (Crain), with very ambitious plans. As sexual tensions start to run high, so do tempers, as the boys find themselves in the middle of a range war.It's all very conventional stuff in the grand scheme of range war Western things, but none the less it manages to stay well above average in spite of a tricky first quarter. For the fist part Vidor and Douglas seem to be playing the film for laughs, with the actor mugging for all he is worth. Add in the wet behind the ears performance of Campbell and one wonders if this is going to be a spoof. But once the lads land in town and the girls show up (Trevor classy, Crain smouldering), the film shifts in gear and starts to get edgy with Vidor proving to have paced it wisely. The thematics of era and lifestyle changes, here signified by barbed wire, are well written into the plot. While interesting camera angles and biting photography keep the mood sexually skew whiff. Boone lifts proceedings with another fine villain performance, and Jay C. Flippen in support is as solid as he almost always was. 7/10

caa821 I'd seen this film before, and had I rated it then, I would give it perhaps 7*, tops. But viewing it now, it is a solid 10*, but not for the usual reasons.Viewd 50 years after original release, it provides a perfect example of 1950's films (right in the middle of the decade). It's far from the best Western - of that period or any other, and is way down the list of Kirk Douglas movies (even among his Westerns alone). It has every bit as many cliché characters and lines as Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles," which was all-parody. There is the beautiful, tough-yet-feminine ranch owner (Crain), the "kid" (Campbell), the fast gun and evil killer-type (Boone and Elam), the crusty top hand (Flippen), and, yes indeed, the whore-with-the-heart-of gold (Trevor).One thing about today's flicks - they'd probably have dulled Kirk's smile a bit, given Crain a little less make-up, etc. In these period films in the 1950's, Kirk looked more like his mouth contained perhaps six figures of dental work (wait, it did!). He and Crain were so well-coiffed, you could swear they's had recent $100 visits (at 1950's prices) to high-class salons, augmented before shooting by highly-paid studio stylists (do you think they might have?), and their clothes seemed as if they might have been professionally cleaned and laundered, where in the "Old West" they'd have been cleaned with cistern water, lye soap and a washboard.However, it is the wonderful clichés - visual and verbal - and the nostalgia of the 1950's genre, as well as the cast of well-known figures, now either gone or very elderly, in their younger days, which makes this a 10* for me today.