Dana Andrews plays the title character in Otto Preminger's followup Film Noir to LAURA; though it seems this pictured dame is our FALLEN ANGEL: Enter Linda Darnell as a lusted-upon waitress with the posture of a tattered wild animal reluctantly thrown back into gilded domesticity, it's a pose epitomizing the desperation and desolation of Film Noir. Here's the Cult Film Freak review.
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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