Vincent Price pays the price of police brutality in LAURA: And the audience is behind Dana Andrews, about to let us in on who killed LAURA... or, you know, that other woman... And the following year, Vincent Price would love Gene Tierney again in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN co-starring Dana's beautiful multi-collaborator, Jeanne Crain with Cornel Wilde in his place...
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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