Been reading from a few morons online who comment that Dana Andrews was too old to play Fred Derry in THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, but he's perfect, the perfect age, and wasn't too old at all. If he were a kid, there'd be no reason for the token kid, Harold Russell, bookended by middleman Dana and token old-timer Fredric March. Some people, uh. Anyhow here's Andrew with "a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one," Teresa Wright.
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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