Watched this wonderful haunting movie last night - Kirk Douglas considered it his finest, which is saying A LOT!

I can't get this movie out of my system, it really made me brood.

In Sam Shepard's play "True West" Lee, the psycho older brother, raves about this movie as the last good western. "He dies for the love of his horse" he whispers reverently (I always think of the Malkovich performance - probably his finest hour as well).

The cast is like an old TV show reunion: Carroll O'Conner, William Shallert, Bill Bixby, George Kennedy - and besides Douglas, some true giants: Matthau, Gena Rowlands.

These "problem dramas" of the 50s and 60s really beat the crap out of 99% of what comes out today.

Now there's a movie I've not seen in quite a long time! Was that on DVD or did you watch it on a television station?

If you get a chance, check out the widescreen version. It's like seeing a different movie than the pan & scan version that usually runs on TV.

One of my favorites too, love Douglas's fight with the one-arm guy, Matthau's grumpy yet sympathetic Sheriff, Carrol O'Conner (his film debut), and Whiskey.

This was the widescreen version broadcast on TCM which I taped - that's right, taped - amigo! Hopefully me and my VCR won't get runned over on the freeway by all them new-fangled aut-o-mo-beels and semi-truck-trailer contraptions.