A desperate yearning for belonging is central to Boetticher’s subtle and serpentine westerns.
The film sees Boetticher operating on a more epic scale but still with his distinctively ruthless efficiency.
Kit Parker Films’s set is as no frills as the nine films contained within it.
The critics hated, hated, HATED this movie. And it was number one at the box office two weeks in a row. With good reason.
Goodness gets very little breathing room in André De Toth’s arresting Crime Wave.
These are the sorts of films New York Times critic A.O. Scott recently complained weren’t being made anymore.
Seven Men from Now is the first and, in many ways, the purest of the “Ranown” westerns, and the template for the ensuing films.
As good an introduction to a modest master as you can imagine.