There's a bookend of beating in Jacques Tourneur's desk-set Film Noir THE FEARMAKERS as Dana Andrews begins as a prisoner-of-war from Korea, and then back in Washington D.C. where he owned a business dealing with public-relations opinion-research, now headed crookedly by villain Dick Foran and his huge henchman, Kelly Thordsen, who beat Dana's Alan Eaton some more. But he doesn't lose; not ultimately. Full review at Cult Film Freak.
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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