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Movie Reviews of Dodge City
Movie Review: WONDROUS WESTERN CLASSIC IS LOADS OF FUN
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW! What a greatly entertaining classic this is! Director Michael Curtiz [CASABLANCA, 1942] really cranks it up a notch with this one. This wonderful, technicolor Western is exciting, funny, tragic, suspenseful, romantic...and a little bit of everything else, whew! It had a great hero [Errol Flynn as Wade Hatton], a great villain [Victor Jory], the great guy-you-love-to-hate [Bruce Cabot], the adorable little kid and, of course, Olivia. All about the unbridled, lawless cowtown of Dodge City, Kansas, and the attempts to restore it to the God-fearing, family town and bridge-to-the-West that it was meant to be. Great start as standard stagecoach races a modern locomotive to the town. Amazing scenes of bison strewn throughout the plains. The Sheriff-less town, however, is out of control with wanton violence, gambling and the retribution murder of cattlemen not willing to deal with criminal Cabot of KING KONG [1933] fame. Flynn is flanked by his frequent screen pals: the omnipresent Alan Hale as Rusty and Guinn Williams as Tex. Hale is funny and charming while the awesome Williams is a riot. They are so endearing that you'd just wish they were your pals. Flynn is a stalwart and courageous cattle agent who is asked to become town marshal but refuses. Things change dramatically, however, as another wanton shootout leads to the tragic death of a small boy. Time to put that badge on. This is an amazing film that included the forced sequestration of guns [remember UNFORGIVEN, 1992, and TOMBSTONE, 1993] and the intimidation and assassination of the town newspaper editor [remember THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE, 1962] who is trying to support Flynn and expose Cabot and his gang. I could not help but have flashes of these three Westerns as I watched this film. The barroom brawl is a doozy, a classic production---you just gotta see it yourself. Jory, with that great sinister face, voice and demeanor is memorable. Cabot, who was the hero in the orig KING KONG, played the crooked, muderous cattleman and "owner" of Dodge City perturbingly well. Hey, even the Angel in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [1946], Henry Travers, is in this and Ward Bond is thrown in there somewhere, too. Overall, a splendid, wonderful, full-of-life Western classic that ,yet, has never received maximum honors from many pros. Overshdowed by STAGECOACH, GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ---three iconic films---all in that incredible year of 1939 ? Still, I believe superior to STAGECOACH and a benchmark from which Westerns should be compared. I'm sure Mel Brooks would agree.Movie Review: THE WESTERN ALL THE REST TRIED TO COPY
Summary: 5 Stars
When Errol Flynn was asked to be a cowboy in a western, at first he thought Warner Brothers was kidding. After all, he was the ultimate swashbuckler. Could he really trade in his sword and bow for a six-shooter and be believable?
The movie was DODGE CITY and the director was Michael Curtiz (Casa Blanca). Curtiz was known for big, sprawling, explosive productions that pulled out all the stops and left you breathless. That's just what he did in DODGE CITY, and it is magnificent.
DODGE CITY is the story of the town that men like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday made famous. It was a town that was the epitome of the Wild West at its wildest. There was no law and order. The big cattle companies came there to sell their beef, and, once there, the cowboys saw it only as a place to have a good time. So, it was no place to raise a family.
Into that town come two cowboys on a drive - trail boss Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn) and his sidekick Rusty (Alan Hale - Gilligan's Island) - and what they find is blatant murder and robbery by the man running the town - Jeff Surrett, played by Bruce Cabot, who holds a grudge against Wade for turning him in for poaching. Ann Sheridan plays Cabot's floozy girlfriend, and Olivia de Havilland plays Abbie Irving, one of the members of a wagon train that accompanied Wade and his men on the trail. While on the trail, there was an incident between Wade and Abbie's drunken brother that ended in his death. Now Abbie, too, has a grudge against Wade.
This film has everything: a cattle stampede, a race between a train and a stagecoach, a barroom brawl, several attempted hangings, lots of shootouts, a runaway wagon, an Indian attack, a train wreck - one exciting event after another, and most of them the first time ever on that scale, and in color. This is the film that all the others copied. When it premiered in the present day Dodge City, it was the biggest premier of any film to date.
You gotta see this one cowboys and cowgirls. And, would you believe it: you can buy it now as part of the Errol Flynn Collection on Amazon for only $29.97 (that's six films for less than $5 each) - or, by itself for $9.97. When I put this one into my DVD player, I have to admit I had my doubts about ol' Errol pulling it off - but he's great, and the movie is magnificent. They don't get much better than this.
Waitsel Smith
Movie Review: THE ESSENCE OF WESTERN
Summary: 5 Stars
In opposition to some of the reviewers here, I consider DODGE CITY as a masterpiece. You can find here in 104 minutes a summary of almost every themes found in the western cinematographic genre. For instance, the main theme of DODGE CITY describes the clash between civilization, symbolized by the railroad, and the lawless western territories, then the efforts of the good people to impose the law in Dodge City. Peripheral themes such as the resentments created by the Civil War, the beginning of the creation of cattle empires or the whole problem of pioneering are also handled in DODGE CITY.
All these themes are somehow engulfed in the superb metaphor created by Michael Curtiz that starts with the competition between the iron horse and the stagecoach at the beginning of the movie and ends with the final shooting between Flynn and the villains. In the first scene, Errol Flynn clearly belongs to the wild west and proudly rides on the side of the railroad while, during the last scene, the same Flynn manages to kill the villains, who are on horseback, by shooting at them from the train. It's a brilliant idea that summarizes this indispensable movie.
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Movie Review: Dodge City
Summary: 5 Stars
Hugely Enjoyable ! . Where Cattle drivers end , trouble begins . Thirsty trigger-happy cowmen pour into DODGE CITY , where might too often makes right . There ought to be a law in this corrupt , bullet-riddled town . Once trail boss Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn 1909-1959) pins on a babge , there is . In his first of Eight Westerns . Flynn is as able with a six-shooter as he was with a Swashbucklers Sword . He Contronts lynch mobs , slam outlaws into jail and escapes along with co-star Olivia de Havilland (1916- ) a fiery locked railroad car . Cheered for Flynns sagebrush debut , its vivid Technicolor look and spectacular saloon brawl that may have employed every available stuntsperson in Hollywood , DODGE CITY later gained another distinction when it inspired Mel Brooks (1926- ) cowboy parody (Blazing Saddles 1974) . Double feature , anyone ! . Same crew how restore and remastred "The adventures of Robin Hood 1939" done this wonderful , Ultra-Resolution transfer in High Quality pictures . This is a classic Wester , Higly RecommendedMovie Review: flynn is in the west and "dodge city" will be cleaned up
Summary: 5 Stars
if you have seen any of my reviews you know i love westerns and i've hooked my two young sons on them. this one is one that my dad watched with me and i loved it ,so i watched it with my boys and they were fixed on the screen following every shootout bar fight and even the yeck stuff(yeck they are kissing). flynn was at the top of his game when this one was made and he looks every inch the hero even if he felt he didn't make a good cowboy.olivia de havilland is once again his love intrest and alan hale (father of the skipper on gilligan's island) is his side kick again. this was shot in color and the transfer is great. the color jumps off the screen and the action is just what the doctor ordered. you wont go wrong getting this one, the whole family will love it.