COMANCHE STATION (1960) - Very good Western directed by Budd Boetticher starring Randolf Scott and Claude Akins. Solid story about a man who is searching for his lost wife among the Comanche. Every time he hears of a captive white woman he attempts to rescue them in hopes of finding his wife, so it's revealed during the film. As usual our hero Randolf Scott is riding with some bad guys with some nice Western backdrops to enhance the film. Like most of the Boetticher & Scott films they are usually filmed East of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range Lone Pine, California area.
WHITE HEAT (1947) This great ganster film played on TCM tonight directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo. The film ends with a foiled robbery involving a bank roll office at an oil refinery in L.A.. Neat visuals and choice of a gas truck to get into the money area. Ends with the famous Cagney line "Top of the World" with the refinery blowing up.
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) This remake isn't bad, but I kept thinking they were going to grab a coke or a bag of skittles while posing for the pre-movie commercial. Besides that the film captures some of the doom of a massive alien invasion and the failure of humans in general at the ferry crossing. Really liked the army and air strikes on the ridge and the beginning with the storm. Other than that the film is forgetable as it has all been done before in the original. Wait for DVD or cable.
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