Horizons West

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Horizons West

1952

1h 21m

Western

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After fighting in the Civil War, the Hammond brothers of Texas return to Austin and begin to drift apart. While Neal (Rock Hudson) commandeers the family ranch, courts local beauty Sally (Judith Braun) and becomes a marshal, Dan (Robert Ryan) turns to a life of crime and lusts after the wife (Julia Adams) of a prominent magnate (Raymond Burr). Their lives reconverge when Neal must choose between Dan and a group of ranchers terrorized by his brother's gang of cattle rustlers.

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Boetticher's color cinematography is certainly above average, and he does manage a few interesting shots here and there, but he seems stuck in the limitations of the story and the numerous interior shots.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 27, 2021

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Not even the nightclub comics who make fun of movie dialogue have often dreamed up cornier stuff than some of the chitchat in this pretentious western.

Oct 21, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Script is too plaintive.

Rated: B-

Mar 18, 2012

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color.

Aug 10, 2011

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William L

Just another of a relative deluge of heavy-handed 'moral' Westerns typical of the 1950s, with a message that was clearly lost on those Boomer children who may have seen it upon release. Fails to build up tension or empathy for its characters, and so largely falls flat. (2/5)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/07/20

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Audience Member

'Horizons West' is the kind of unpretentious, fast-paced Technicolor western that Universal-International churned out in the 1950s--Technicolor Iconographic Western!!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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130719: My first "Silver Screen Classics" movie (lots of westerns here). I do not like Rock Hudson as an actor. Other than him, I liked this film. I never lost interest. Quite entertaining.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Average 'western' film but the difference being the lead character goes from good to bad which is probably the reason he is a post-war 'Confederate' Major.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Marvelous b-Western from the always reliable Boetticher. This is a fairly grim film with an interesting anti-capitalist message.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Budd Boetticher

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Robert Ryan

Dan Hammond

Julie Adams

Lorna Hardin

Rock Hudson

Neil Hammond

John McIntire

Ira Hammond

Judith Braun

Sally Eaton

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Synopsis

After fighting in the Civil War, the Hammond brothers of Texas return to Austin and begin to drift apart. While Neal (Rock Hudson) commandeers the family ranch, courts local beauty Sally (Judith Braun) and becomes a marshal, Dan (Robert Ryan) turns to a life of crime and lusts after the wife (Julia Adams) of a prominent magnate (Raymond Burr). Their lives reconverge when Neal must choose between Dan and a group of ranchers terrorized by his brother's gang of cattle rustlers.

Director: Budd Boetticher
Producer: Albert J. Cohen
Screenwriter: Louis Stevens
Production Co: Universal International Pictures
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 31, 2020
Runtime: 1h 21m