Soon after Dana Andrews cleaned up Anne Baxter in SWAMP WATER, turning her from an Okefenokee urchin to a small town cutie, she was already his steady girlfriend in the technicolor WW2 propaganda picture CRASH DIVE, where Tyrone Powers (his actual rank on the opening credits) uses his powers to steal her away.
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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