WESTERN SUNDAY #6: Mr. Ugly Comes To Town!

THE BIG GUNDOWN

(1966)

Kurt initiates Lee Van Cleef into the Western Sunday tradition with The Big Gundown!

Jonathan Corbett is a gunman thought to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he comes to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt. During this hunt Jonathan gets to know its adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime of which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought.

WESTERN SUNDAY #5: There are some things a man just can't run away from.

STAGECOACH

(1939)

Josh kicks it old school with the first great collaboration between Duke Wayne and Pappy Ford!

Varied group of characters with nothing in common are stuck together inside a coach besieged by bandits and Indians. Considered structurally perfect, with excellent direction by John Ford, it's the film that made Wayne a star as the Ringo Kid, an outlaw looking to avenge the murder of his brother and father. The first pairing of Ford and John Wayne changed the course of the modern western. Stunning photography by Bert Glennon and Ray Binger captured the mythical air of Monument Valley, a site that Ford was often to revisit. Based on the story "Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox.