It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.This page works best with JavaScript. A pleasure to watch.... Chapter 8. A beautiful little film with wonderful performances by Joel McCrea, his real life wife Francis Dee, Charles Bickford as Pat Garrett and Joseph Calleia.
But he and she have developed an attraction to each other. The deserts look great in the well-shot exteriors. Four Faces West (1948) The fourth and final on-screen pairing of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee resulted in perhaps their best picture, Four Faces West (1948). However, Monte Marquez, a gambler passenger, observes and overhears enough to figure out what McEwen has done. Four Faces West Story Line. A good story with a lot of heart. For its genre the film is unusual in that not a single shot is ever fired. Charles Bickford one of the best character actors to hit the screen is excellent as Pat Garrett. It was less about being a western and robbing a bank, as unusual a robbery as it was, than about someone 'passing this way'. When they reach an Alamogordo saloon that Marquez's cousins run, a cattleman named Burnett is willing to take on McEwen as a hired hand. All backing and production was provided by the Bee Gees with Bill Shepherd doing the arrangements. I cannot believe I missed this movie when it premiered or somewhere down the long dusty trail of my life. Very fine, even great acting by the 2 of them, Joel McCrea / Francis Dee, and other characters : friend on the train, the cousins ... good looking and smart Pat Garrett. A western to be remembered. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. It's my first time seeing Dee, that I recall, and she is truly a wonderful actress. for the $2000 he has taken. I loved the movie and the fact that McCrea and Dee ...It seemed weird but, as the movie developed the Paso por aqui began to make sense to me. Watch Four Faces West movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com.
From the beginning you realize that Ross McEwen is not a common cowboy but it's the last half hour of the movie that captures his greatness. If the image above has two photos in it that is how it will arrive as one photograph. Garrett is not fooled, though, and McEwen is convinced to turn himself in, the marshal promising to vouch for his good deed. I would watch "Four Faces West" or any movie with Joel McCrea every day.
I wasn't disappointed. Fantastic. Fay finds out a posse from Santa Maria is after a wanted man and recalls that is where McEwen came on board.
In July 1968 she recorded two songs written by the Gibb brothers, "Treacle Brown" and "Four Faces West". Maybe a five stars movie, but ...perhaps a bit too much in the generous thing about the end, the expected end. Chapter 3 4.
I think I lost nothing even first time seing this movie. I wish more movies were like this.
Great cast and great movie. And with useful English subtitle for a Frenchman like me. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. And the character played by Joseph Calleia [Monte Marquez] is delightful as a kind of foil for McCrea's predicament. Fay rides along, but ends up separated and captured by Garrett's men. The train tracks are washed out near Albuquerque, so the small group goes off alone via a route used to deliver mail. Based on a novel by early Western fiction writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869-1934), Four Faces West (1948) makes ideal use of its stars, Joel McCrea and real-life wife Frances Dee, in a uniquely suspenseful, sweetly romantic film. It was Saturday afternoon again at the Tower Theater in my home town in Texas !! Garrett and deputy Clint Waters come to town, so McEwen must leave, but offers her an engagement ring. Bickford is good, too, as Pat Garrett. Joel McCrea riding a bull film Four Faces West 8233-12. In his day I put him a tad below the BIG TWO John Wayne and Randy Scott, yes he was that good. In Ramrod (De Toth 1947), McCrea is the easy going man, maybe too much, or too long, and behind the Veronica Lake's fighting character ; here he is surely the great character, even allowing for the Francis Dee's moving performance. Four Faces West is a 1948 Western film starring Joel McCrea, his real-life wife Frances Dee, and Charles Bickford.It is based on the novel Pasó por aquí by Eugene Manlove Rhodes.Its plot concerns a down-on-his-luck cowboy who robs a bank. The stars had been married to each other since shortly after making their first film together, The Silver Cord (1933), although they had met months before that on a beach in Santa Monica, where Dee was shooting publicity photos. Chapter 1 2. He stays to help and starts a fire to signal the lawmen, needing their assistance. The KL Studio Classics Blu-ray of Four Faces West is a fine encoding of this special movie, bettering by far a mediocre Artisan DVD from 2003. Marquez gets there along with Garrett and Fay, but because Florencio is another relative of his, pretends that McEwen is a total stranger. Violence was minimal and the movie did not suffer because of it. Our collection is from a National Screen Archive as well as a local Los Angeles Newspaper and Associated Press Photo Morgue. I can't add anything to them other than to simply say this is one of the best western movies I've seen and trust me when I say I've seen quite a lot of them and read many excellent novels by the very best authors in the genre. They do exist today, but this is a classic example of a good story line and decent actors. Very satisfactory way to pass the time. The image is clean and stable. All the characters were well rounded. A superb adventure with Charles Bickford as the legendary Pat Garrett. As soon as my VHS of Four Faces West came in the mail, I popped some corn, then sat down and prepared to be taken back in time to the days of my early childhood during the early 1940's. I loved the movie and the fact that McCrea and Dee were real life husband and wife made the story even more delicious. Conrad who in Mark Hellingers THE KILLERS was excellent as a hit man in the films opening scene ENJOY they don't come any better then this. It seemed weird but, as the movie developed the Paso por aqui began to make sense to me.