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Frontier Marshal (1939)
Wyatt is still laughing
Laughing from the grave at all the tall tale inaccuracies amplified through time. In 2022 he must be 10 feet tall and won thousands of gun fights. Randolph Scott is always entertaining but the screen writers back then weren't talented enough to keep it somewhat accurate, historically speaking.
Pony Express Rider (1976)
Great character actors can't fix a bad screenplay.
Along with some of the best character actors of the period this was a flop from beginning to end. It also ended up being a bad break for an old high school buddy of mine that was cast as Captain Billings. Cliff Brand, not his real name, was an unknown at the time, remained unknown. I personally believe Cliff Brand could have evolved into a household name with the right screenplay. Murphy's law, it wasn't meant to be.
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Best Version
Having seen Kurosawa's Seven Samurai then Sturges' version in 1960 and now Antoine Fuqua's great work in 2016 all I can say it just keeps getting better but for different reasons. I gave it 7 stars for the technological work in cinematography. It reminded me a little of Sergio Leone's work with extreme closeups of the characters. Brilliantly done.
Magnum, P.I.: Jororo Farewell (1984)
Bellisario's sense of humor
OK, so Magnum P.I. wasn't his best work. Probably not too many people picked up on this but in the beginning scene when the young prince was running away through the market he ran down an alley and the camera flashed the street sign on the corner and the name of the street was Sing Loy. Phonetic Vietnamese for "sorry". It did create a chuckle.