Other than, the next decade, appearing in back-to-back TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, Dana Andrews and younger brother Steve Forrest only appeared in together once, in one movie, and it was Dana's World War II Noir SEALED CARGO where Andrews is a reluctant-to-get-involved ship captain and his square-jawed, blond-haired brother, a Nazi soldier under the command of a sneaky Claude Rains...
The seventies' Western TAKE A HARD RIDE seemed to have several sub-genres at play, and yet, despite a small yet important role, Dana Andrews is the best representation since it's not a Blaxploitation despite stars Jim Brown (as Dana's friend), Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, nor a Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef on their trial, but more a modernized version of the kind of classic rough-and-tumble cowboy picture that Dana himself was a veteran of, from CANYON PASSAGE to THREE HOURS TO KILL, and before and beyond, including his last starring roles, TOWN TAMER and JOHNNY RENO.
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