He who is not with me is against me! The Halliday Brand is directed by Joseph Lewis and written by George W. George and George F. Slavin. It stars Joseph Cotton, Ward Bond, Betsy Blair, Bill Williams, Viveca Lindfors, Jay C. Flippen, Christopher Dark and Jeannette Nolan. Music is by Stanley Wilson and cinematography by Ray Rennahan. The Halliday family is presided over by patriarch Big Dan (Bond). Dan is a bigot and rules the roost with an iron fist - he's also the town sheriff! When he finds his daughter, Martha (Blair), is in a relationship with half-breed Jivaro Burris (Dark), he is enraged and it kicks off a series of events that forces the eldest son, Daniel (Cotton), to become rouge to his father's ways. He can't protect his own property, how's he going to protect yours? Get a new sheriff or you're next. It's a little strange to think that a film directed by auteur Joseph H. Lewis, one that gets runs on TCM, and is a Western at that, is still in this day and age crying out for some attention. The low volume of reviews written on line for it - both professional and amateur - further emphasises that it is little seen and sadly forgotten. Which for genre fans, and in particular those who like some psychological barbs in their narratives, is a damn shame. We are firmly in the realm of the Oedipal and the Freudian, where the pic cross examines the effects that a tyrannical patriarch has on his children. Violence as a solution is one of his mantras, as is racism, Big Dan Halliday firmly believes that anyone who is not with him, and takes his beliefs as sacrosanct, is therefore against him. When his eldest son is jolted into rebellion, it spells trouble for not only the Halliday family across the board, but also the townsfolk who come under the domineering wing of Sheriff Big Dan. It would be churlish of me to even try and gloss over the bizarre casting decisions, for they alone to my mind stop this film from being part of the top table sitters for similar genre pieces. Cotton playing Bond's son is ridiculous, even with Bond in old man make up and wiggery, Cotton still looks too old to play his son. Lindfors doesn't fare much better as a half-breed, neither does Nolan as a full blood American Indian, and yet (it should be noted that Dark convinces as Jivaro) the perfs are all actually ok, fronted by a "perfectly" cast Bond (never one to mince his words or be outspoken was Ward!). At the helm is Lewis, a director who over the decades has come to be regarded as a major talent that was under appreciated in his own time. The likes of Scorsese have led the way with glowing praise, enticing film fans to seek out some of his work and be spellbound by the likes of Gun Crazy and The Big Combo, and enchanted by My Name is Julia Ross, and admire the off kilter daring of Terror in a Texas Town. Here he once again makes a silk purse out of a sow's ass, his ability to make a cheap film look expensive is quite something to observe, infusing scenes with either the ethereal or some metaphorical smarts. A top talent that just like The Halliday Brand itself, is well worth discovering. 8/10
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.
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Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.
Movie Star Rating : 6.8 Read More
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
Movie Star Rating : 6.4 Read More
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.
Movie Star Rating : 6.5 Read More
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Movie Star Rating : 6.3 Read More
An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.
Movie Star Rating : 6.4 Read More
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Movie Star Rating : 7.5 Read More
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.
Movie Star Rating : 4.8 Read More
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.
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Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace.
Movie Star Rating : 6.1 Read More
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Movie Star Rating : 6.9 Read More
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