The tough mug between Dana Andrews and Gary Merrill in WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS wound up being choreographer Tommy Tune's boyfriend and stage manager, and died of AIDS in 1994, at the age of 80: or is there another David Wolfe they're confusing this guy with? Below is Wolfe in KANSAS RAIDERS with Dana's crooked friend from CANYON PASSAGE, Brian Donlevy.
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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