The Last Posse (1953), directed by Alfred Werker and produced by Harry Joe Brown, is coming from Columbia’s MOD program. It’s been a while Columbia offered up a Western — let’s hope it’s a sign of things to come.
It stars Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford and Wanda Hendrix. Farther down the cast list is Skip Homeier. Crawford, who I always think of from Born Yesterday (1950) and Highway Patrol (1955-59), seems a bit out of place on horseback. But he’s quite good in this one. He’s also in Lone Star (1952), a film I have many problems with (he’s not one of them), and The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), a picture I love.
The Last Posse makes good use of Lone Pine locations, is black and white and runs just a bit over 70 minutes. These are all good things.
Not sure what the release date is.
Thanks to John Knight for the tip.
I, too, love “The Fastest Gun Alive”. Crawford did another western of note, André de Toth’s “The Last of the Comanches” which I loved too (I’m a big fan of both Crawford and De Toth)
John Derek was always good in Westerns, its a pity he did only a few. “The Outcast” is one of my favourites – with Jim Davis, James Millican, Bob Steele, Harry Carey Jr, Ben Cooper and Slim Pickens its a super movie – any likelyhood it might get released on DVD etc.