Gunman's Walk

168th Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch Coming into this movie, I truly didn’t know what to expect. The dialogue delivery at first was a little rough and that Wilhelm-ish scream by that guy falling off the cliff made me think this was some sort of a comedy or a…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Heartbreaking. We know we stand on the shoulders of degenerates, folks who had mettle and did things so the West could progress - not directly, no - but grappled with morality among ever-changing winds. They survived. They endured rugged conditions. They crawled out from…

Ziglet_mir

Considering the era this was made in you can read all kinds of subtext into it: civil rights/race issues, nuclear disarmament ("If you give a kid a gun, he's gonna use it!"!), etc, but it's also just a totally solid surface story about a bad dad and his shitty kid, played…

laird

Phil Karlson was a workhorse who made a lot of B-movies, many of them good, many of them not good, and some of them (like this one) great, and it can't be a coincidence how many of his best movies are about nominally lawful systems infected by corruption so deep and so…

Will Sloan

63 "Is that all, preacher?" "Yeah, that's all..." So quiet, and yet so unsettled. You can feel the dust rising up within each movement, wrestled awake by long-standing ethics uprooted along the horizon line. Those Columbia interiors could charm the socks off of…

SilentDawn

Films about the changing of the west are a dime a dozen. Virtually all of them feature a wealthy, powerful older man who clings to the simple days of the past, when guns were the law and his money and will made him god. And, ultimately, all of those men give way to the…

sakana1

"what's wrong with a man wanting his son to be like him? to live like him? to ride like him?" "to shoot like him?"

Josh Lewis

Rancher Van Heflin has helped tame the West, but he’s uneasy with aspects of the civilization that has followed. That’s partly because he’s used to settling disputes with his gun; he’s not sure he needs the law. He’s skeptical enough that he’s been training his sons (Tab…

Quiller

A great bad seed western with lots to say about gun culture and the facade of civilization, directed by Phil Karlson, a man who understands the breakdown of violent worlds and how their destructive logic plays even louder if you just let the drama rush towards its…

Filipe Furtado