Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind
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Actor: Charles McGraw, Jay Adler, Julie London, Nacho Galindo, Royal Dano
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: George Folsey
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Saddle the Wind

Movie Review: Modestly effective, humorless Western drama...
Summary: 3 Stars

"Saddle the Wind" is the first of two 1958 Westerns in which Taylor plays a reformed outlaw... He is cast opposite a promising newcomer John Cassavetes... The sexy and flamboyant Julie London provides the love interest but her role is poorly defined and almost working from outside the plot...

Robert Taylor is a personality on screen rather than an actor... He plays here an ex-gunfighter who has reformed and is living and working on his ranch peacefully... But fate will not allow him to retire... Cassavetes, his wild young unstable brother shows up carrying a six-gun, and with a sexy dance-hall singer London...

Cassavetes' intensity did add excitement to the show... He shoots down a tough character and with his killer instinct now waked up, he attacks a group of homesteaders led by Royal Dano and sets fire to their belongings... This battle has much more cinematic electricity than the final confrontation between the two brothers...

Strong landowner (Donald Crisp) imposes himself at this point, and asks the two brothers, now troublemakers, to leave the country...

Shortly after that time, Cassavetes gets into a wild and confused struggle with Crisp's men and is wounded, but manages to escape... Taylor goes out to get him...

With some magnificent Colorado Rockies scenery caught effectively by George Folsey's CinemaScope and Technicolor photography, "Saddle the Wind" is modestly effective, humorless Western drama...

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SADDLE THE WIND (DVD MOVIE)
The credits of Saddle the Wind feature two unlikely names to be connected with a Western: the script is by Rod Serling (pre-Twilight Zone), and the wind in need of saddling is personified by John Cassavetes, doing an 1860s variation on a 1950s juvenile delinquent. He's kid brother to Robert Taylor, an ex-gunfighter who's turned rancher with the blessing of range baron Donald Crisp. The peace of their CinemaScope-pretty valley is variously threatened by gunman Charles McGraw, an extended family of squatters (headed by Royal Dano in anguished righteousness mode), and most of all the volatile, gun-happy Cassavetes. Saddle the Wind turns out to be something of a discovery, thanks to Serling's metaphor-rich dialogue and intriguingly oblique direction by Robert Parrish. There's some facile '50s-TV psychologizing, but mood trumps plot, and the inevitable showdown takes a surprising turn. Plus it never hurts to have Julie London around to gaze soulfully and sing the title song. --Richard T. Jameson

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