"Ah, go on, no one's got a wife that looks like that!" Happy Birthday Virginia Mayo, who not only played Dana Andrews beautiful but not very deep wife, Marie, in the film he's most remembered for, but she ironically uttered the line, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.
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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