Added some sepia to Dana Andrews looking at himself as a con artist named Eric Stanton, who enters a seacoast Northern California small town on a bus, with a dollar in his pocket, and might just leave with a rich wife in Otto Preminger's LAURA followup, with even more creative camera shots and a neater Noirish title, FALLEN ANGEL.
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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