The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek
by Vincent McEveety, Gene Kelly
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Actor: Dean Jagger, Gary Lockwood, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, James StewartDirector: Gene Kelly, Vincent McEveety
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 206 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek
Movie Review: Two classy actors in two serviceable westerns
Summary: 3 Stars
Both films are beautifully restored and presented in letterbox format. The colors, the photography, especially the night shooting in "Firecreek" are excellent. Of the two, "Firecreek" is the standout. "Firecreek" is a simple "High Noon" story with cowardly townspeople unwilling to take a stand against a gang of invading outlaws. Henry Fonda plays a fine hangdog villain and gang boss and James Stewart is the reluctant hero faced with his own moral and spiritual crisis. "Firecreek" lacks the taught script and perfect pacing of "High Noon", but it's also less manipulative and contains more careful character development. I've always thought "High Noon" was too political for its own good. No worries of that here. This is just a good western with solid opposing characters who must have it out. The weaker film of the set is "The Cheyenne Social Club". It is quite dated, silly, corny, cute and sexist in that old fashioned Hollywood way. The ladies are lovely and busty prostitutes with hearts of gold. James Stewart plays the plain cowhand who is thrust into pimpdom after his deceased brother leaves him a bordello as part of his estate. Henry Fonda is very amusing as Stewart's close friend. Fonda has less lines but always seems to get the laugh just by cracking a nut, grinning or twinkling his eyes. This movie is pleasant and diverting and delivers humor and action in regular doses, but it is otherwise forgettable.
Summary of The Cheyenne Social Club / Firecreek
The teaming of James Stewart and Henry Fonda was a natural: not only were the two men veteran stars of their generation, but they'd actually been friends and even roommates since early in their careers. These two Westerns offer the stars in their relaxed end-of-career mode, with Stewart in the hero roles and Fonda as either villain or burr-under-the-saddle sidekick.Firecreek is a grim 1968 Western that carries a strong residual aroma of High Noon. Stewart plays a farmer who happens to be the nominal (but rarely needed) sheriff of Firecreek, which means he must go into service when Fonda and his scurvy bunch of desperados (among them Gary Lockwood and Jack Elam) come to town looking for trouble. This slow, stripped-down picture has a philosophical undertone, with Fonda's weary, wounded outlaw trading bitter wisdom with local girl Inger Stevens. It goes on too long and Stewart is in the phase of coasting on his familiar persona, but overall it's a decent little Western fable.
The Cheyenne Social Club, from 1970, gets off to a marvelous start, with a sequence of saddle tramps Stewart and Fonda riding across half the West as Fonda maintains a fractured monologue throughout. Screenwriter James Lee Barrett was a veteran who worked frequently with Stewart (Shenandoah) and John Wayne, and some of the Western flavor is fine, but... things turn crass as soon as the pals realize Stewart has inherited a bordello in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Everybody except Fonda overacts mercilessly, and director Gene Kelly--yes, that Gene Kelly--indulges a leering style that undercuts some of the authentic laughs. Shirley Jones is around to provide comfort at the club; some predictable gunplay is mixed in with the jokes. However middling these two films might be in the filmographies of their formidable stars, it must be said that the widescreen transfer of both films to DVD is very good. --Robert Horton
They can be tough as leather. Or as down-home as any pair of good ol' boys. Either way there's a sense of warm respect between the two stars. The off-camera friendship of James Stewart and Henry Fonda goes back to their days as struggling actors and roommates. The Cheyenne Social Club [Side A] casts them as saddle-weary Texans who surprised to find they've inherited a Wyoming bawdy house feel honor-bound to defend it against a gun-wielding gang. Gene Kelly produces and directs this mix of fun and Western action. Next comes a firestorm of character-driven excitement in Firecreek [Side B]. Fonda plays an outlaw preying on small towns and Stewart is the jittery $2-a-month part-time lawman who must find the courage to stop him. This will be some showdown!Running Time: 228 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569816121 Manufacturer No: 81612
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