If he’s “lone,” why does he travel with a sidekick?
Lone Texas Ranger (1945) is yet another of the “Red Ryder and Little Beaver” features made during the ’40’s. This is what happens when somebody sends me a set of movies. I review them! All of them? You betcha, Red Ryder!
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Comments
Comment from Nathan Shumate
Time: January 10, 2008, 12:29 pm
I’ll have to work my way through a giallo set and a barrelful of British-made noir first.
Comment from lyzard
Time: January 10, 2008, 6:14 pm
Careful, Nathan, you’re starting to sound like me.
Comment from Nathan Shumate
Time: January 10, 2008, 8:31 pm
Nah, I’m a baritone. And my Aussie accent is pretty bad.
Comment from lyzard
Time: January 10, 2008, 10:21 pm
So is mine, compared to what I hear in Da Movies.
Comment from lyzard
Time: January 11, 2008, 4:35 pm
Red has been (a) a horse breeder for the U.S. Army, (b) nothing in particular before he was appointed interim sheriff of Las Vegas, and now (c) a Texas Ranger. I’m thinking, this boy can’t hold a job!
Hey, you think being a single parent is easy?
Comment from Chad
Time: January 14, 2008, 6:39 pm
You’re reviewing my giallos soon, Nathan? I’m looking forward to it. I’ve always had a sincere and deep-rooted appreciation for giallos, if only because I’ve gotten fewer black eyes from my fixation on them than from my other genre-relationship with “theme” slasher themes.
Speaking of which, I’d rent a slasher film about a killer who bases his modus operandi on mid-twentieth century Western serials.
Comment from Chad
Time: January 14, 2008, 6:39 pm
Er, I mean, “theme” slasher films.
Comment from lyzard
Time: January 14, 2008, 7:11 pm
I was re-watching My Dear Killer last night, which has always seemed to me unusually structured for a giallo. What do you think of it?
Comment from Chad
Time: January 14, 2008, 8:01 pm
I liked it, and I feel that its clever use of black comedy (my favorite of such scenes is where the protagonist demonstrates why a lynched man was the victim of murder, not a suicide, by pushing his still un-noosed body around!) and murder mystery cliches makes the film deserve more of a reputation than it has gotten. Still, the pacing is off-kilter and really hurts the film, especially because the “slow” scenes actually do very little to build suspense or drama or build the character.
Comment from Chad
Time: January 14, 2008, 8:03 pm
Oh, and I agree with your comment about structure. I think it took as much from the Anglo-American murder mystery tradition as, if not more than, the giallo sub-genre.
Comment from lyzard
Time: January 14, 2008, 8:09 pm
True, but then you get bits like the scene where the killer wanders around looking for a suitable (in giallo terms) murder weapon. “Ah! A circular saw!”
Comment from Nathan Shumate
Time: January 14, 2008, 10:06 pm
Chad, how’d they get to be YOUR giallo films? Huh? Huh?
I’ve got a boxed set of Blood and Black Lace, The Bird With Crystal Plumage, and Watch Me When I Kill. But I’ve got a heaping stack of reissued noirs and a bucket of indie horror flicks to get through first.
Comment from Chad
Time: January 15, 2008, 2:08 am
Haha, you know, I didn’t even know that I put that “my” in there. My brain has been on the fritz all day…more than usual, I should admit.
Anyway, that’s a good selection you got there; hopefully you won’t be disappointed. I particularly look forward to seeing your thoughts on “Watch Me When I Kill”, which is the one of the three I haven’t seen.
Comment from Blake Matthews
Time: January 10, 2008, 12:22 pm
I hope somebody sends you a set of kung fu movies soon.
I’m dying for some B-master kung fu action.