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    Tuesday
    29
    May
    08:15pm

    Western

    Tue
    29
    May
    2018
    Film Notes
     

    Stagecoach

    • Western
    • USA
    • B&W
    • 99 mins.
    John Ford's landmark Western revolves around an assorted group of colourful passengers aboard the Overland stagecoach bound for Lordsburg, New Mexico, in the 1880s. An alcoholic philosophizer (Thomas Mitchell), a lady of ill repute (Claire Trevor) and a timid liquor salesman (Donald Meek) are among the motley crew of travellers who must contend with an…
    • Tue
      26
      Jun
      2018
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      Hombre

      • Western
      • USA
      • 111 mins.
      Former blacklisted Martin Ritt ("Hud") directs this superior revisionist western, with a liberal slant, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. It's a variant on John Ford's 1939 ‘Stagecoach’, as the outcast hero (played by Paul Newman) instead of running away from civilization in his final desperate…
    • Tue
      12
      Jun
      2018
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      Man of the West

      • Western
      • USA
      • Colour
      • 100 mins.
      Director Anthony Mann's final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man's baser instincts, rising in intensity to the level of Shakespearean tragedy. A reformed outlaw (played by Gary Cooper) becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced…