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Hellbent for Letterbox

Hellbent for Letterbox

By: Michael May and Paxton Holley
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Paxton Holley and Michael May talk Westerns in movies and sometimes other media. Art
Episodes
  • The Violent Men (1955)
    May 23 2025

    Thanks to a listener's suggestion, Michael and Pax watch Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, and Brian Keith in Rudolph Maté's The Violent Men. The movie also features Dianne Foster and Richard Jaeckel. It begins with a couple of classic Western tropes, but takes them in surprising and dark directions.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
    May 9 2025

    In this episode Mike and Pax talk about a twisty western comedy called There Was a Crooked Man starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Warren Oates, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, and John Randolph.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Tall in the Saddle (1944)
    Mar 28 2025

    Michael and Pax check out Young John Wayne and Ella Raines in the Western mystery Tall in the Saddle. The movie also features Gabby Hayes and Ward Bond.

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    1 hr

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