WESTERN SUNDAY # 4: Say my name, Laura San Gianomo!

QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER

(1990)

Hershal brings on some Sellecky goodness as Magnum himself rocks the Outback with his trusty 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle!

Sharpshooter Matthew Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.

WESTERN SUNDAY #3: Django, have you always been alone?

DJANGO

(1966)

Kurt presents the Sergio Corbucci Spaghetti Western masterpiece that begs the question: what the hell is in that coffin, Django?

A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits, and is caught up in a struggle against them.

WESTERN SUNDAY #2: 80s All-Star Awesomeness

SILVERADO

(1985)

Josh brings the Costner for Lawrence Kasdan's 1985 mega-western!

Kasdan clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little Western burg called Silverado; they're played by Kevin Kline (a distinctly modern kind of Western hero), Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy young Kevin Costner. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes.

WESTERN SUNDAY #1: Jimmy Stewart does Badass

THE NAKED SPUR

(1953)

Megan kicks off Western Sundays with an Anthony Mann classic!

A bitter Howard Kemp heads westward to the Rockies from Abilene, Kansas on the trail of murderer Ben Vandergroat and the $5000 reward on Vandergroat's head, money after which Kemp lusts in order to re-purchase the ranch that his absconding fiancée had sold during his stint in the army. Kemp unexpectedly crosses paths with an old, star-crossed gold miner, Jesse Tate, and with a recently-discharged soldier of questionable repute, Roy Anderson. Teaming up, they nab Vandergroat and his girl, Lina Patch, but Vandergroat tries to turn his three distrustful, avaricious captors against each other during the return trip.