Peckinpah completely rewrites John Ford's Western mythology by looking at the passing of the Old West from the point of view of marginalised outlaws rather than law-abiding settlers. While never ignoring their brutality he contrasts their code of loyalty with that of the corrupt railroad magnates. In purely cinematic terms, the film is a savagely beautiful spectacle, Lucien Ballard's superb cinematography complementing Peckinpah's darkly elegiac vision.
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TOMBSTONE (1993)
Certification15 Our Rating
Wyatt Earp and his gang are back. Yet another shoot-out at the OK Corral, but this time that's not the end as the film follows the two sides to the death. A well made and gripping film with the show somewhat stolen by Val Kilmer as a dandy Doc Holliday, shooting first, quoting Latin later! Superb rootin' tootin' entertainment .
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YELLOW SKY (1948)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Six bankrobbers on the run, led by Stetch, discover a ghost town where the only inhabitants are Grandpa and his pretty tomboy granddaughter. When it becomes apparent that Grandpa is sitting on a large amount of gold, Stretch's compadres plot to relieve the old man of his treasure, but Stretch has fallen for the girl, and the scene is set for a deadly show down between the outlaws. Yellow Sky is a hugely entertaining traditional Western, where men are men and girls….well they just have to look mi
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