A dirty white cat is one of the entries in a fair contest in this episode reviewed by Ted Davis.
Gunsmoke – “A Man Called Smith”
Category Archives: Western
California (1977)
A man named California defends an adorable white kitten in this post Civil War spaghetti western.
Gunsmoke – “Celia”
A boxful of tabby kittens warms the heart of a jezebel in this episode reviewed by Ted Davis.
Wild Rovers (1971)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Blake Edwards Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards’ heavily contrived yet sincere elegy for the old American West, its passing symbolized in the characters of weathered and amiable Ross Bodine (William Holden) and young and eager Frank Post […]
Fade In (1973)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Alan Smithee (Jud Taylor) Synopsis: Originally filmed in 1968 but not released until 1973 as a TV movie. Moab, Utah rancher Rob (Burt Reynolds) hires out as a driver to a visiting Hollywood production company filming a pretentious western (Blue, 1968) in the local environs starring Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet […]
Kung Fu – “Chains”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: March 29, 1973 Directed by: Robert Butler Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: To learn the whereabouts of his brother, mild-mannered wanderer Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), who also happens to be a Shaolin monk on the run from a trumped […]
Bat Masterson – “The Romany Knives”
by Brian H Original Air Date: July 22, 1959 Directed by: Walter Doniger Synopsis: In Dodge City, Kansas, the dapper Western gambler and lawman Bat Masterson (Gene Barry) rescues a young woman from a Gypsy (Romany) tribe when he discovers that she is not a Gypsy and will inherit $50,000 when she turns 21 years […]
Klondike Kate (1943)
by Brian H. and Linda Kay Directed by: William Castle Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Kathleen “Kate” O’Day (Ann Savage) arrives in 1890’s Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush with a deed from her deceased father to a saloon owned by Jefferson Braddock (Tom Neal). […]
Have Gun – Will Travel – “Fogg Bound”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: December 3, 1960 Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen Synopsis: The successful capitalist gunslinger known as Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by finicky and punctilious Phileas Fogg (Patric Knowles) to ensure that he maintains his timetable for his trip Around the World in Eighty Days – and to avoid the […]
Have Gun – Will Travel – “Tiger”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: November 28, 1959 Directed by: Don Taylor This review contains a mild Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: The prolific and mysterious gunslinger known as Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by wealthy coward John Ellsworth (Parley Baer) to […]