Wichita 09/02/23

“Anything Goes in Wichita!”  In the second half of his starring career Joel McCrea turned to westerns, favoring ‘kinder and gentler’ scripts when possible. This civilized telling of part of the Wyatt Earp story was McCrea’s first collaboration with producer Walter Mirisch. It’s an Allied Artists ‘A’ picture right down the line, and a special favorite — the man behind the camera is Jacques Tourneur, the most mellow and expressive of genre directors. The cast is exceptional too: young Vera Miles, a sneering Lloyd Bridges, and Edgar Buchanan as an unexpectedly effective villain. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
09/02/23