Our first post ever, here's Dana Andrews as a Korean POW Vet given to fits of fainting spells, and here regaining his composure to sustain fighting bad guy Dick Foran, who took over his company whilst being brainwashed by communists. Reviewed as a Jacques Tourneur with Dana double feature along with CURSE OF THE DEMON on the main site, 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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