Tag: Jack Elam

Creature from Black Lake Blu-ray review

For those who love watching films with Bigfoot, look no further than the 1976 thriller, Creature from Black Lake. This creature classic has a pair of legendary actors in Jack Elam and Dub Taylor, cinematography by Dean Cundey, a somewhat scary looking creature and lots of swamp cheese. This movie may give viewers a sense…


The Last Sunset Blu-ray review

The Last Sunset is a 1961 Western film directed by legendary director Robert Aldrich and starring screen legends Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, and Dorothy Malone. The film boasts a superb supporting cast with Joseph Cotten, Regis Toomey, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand and Jack Elam, although the latter two didn’t get much in the way of…


Vera Cruz (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review

Vera Cruz is a Western from 1954 starring a pair of screen legends in Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper and future icon Charles Bronson. Directed by Robert Aldrich, he pushes the bar with characters that don’t care about right or wrong and has a shocking scene where Bert Lancaster’s character threatens to murder child hostages….


The Rare Breed Blu-ray review

One of my favorite actors in cinema is James Stewart, mainly for some of his great unforgettable roles he had over the years, be it from Anatomy of a Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo and It’s a Wonderful Life.  He was a brilliant actor, often playing likeable characters. In 1939 he starred in a comedy Western,…