Released in 1954, Broken Lance addressed the growing concern of “race relations” “race relations” from the standpoint of the Old American West. A reworking of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers (1949), the film addresses the issue of so-called ‘half…
Marilyn Monroe’s first starring role, Niagara is unlike the films she would become known for. Cast as a femme fatale, Monroe plays Rose Loomis, the new wife of older, troubled veteran George Loomis (Joseph Cotten). The couple, on their honeymoon…
Three years after the influential Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn helmed the epic and revisionist Western, Little Big Man. Based on the novel Thomas Berger and adapted for the screen by Calder Willingham Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack Crabb,…