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      Horizons West

      1952 1h 21m Western List
      Reviews 40% 50+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less

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      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 Full Review 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 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Script is too plaintive. Rated: B- Mar 18, 2012 Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color. Aug 10, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member Inventive Western, rich in story, style and color. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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
      Screenwriter
      Louis Stevens
      Production Co
      Universal International Pictures
      Genre
      Western
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 31, 2020
      Runtime
      1h 21m