Black Spurs

John Chard

2014-12-27

⭐ 6.5

"Santee Turns Bounty Hunter" Black Spurs is directed by R.G. Springsteen and written by Steve Fisher. It stars Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Lon Chaney Junior, Terry Moore, Bruce Cabot, James Best, DeForest Kelly and Scott Brady. Music is by Jimmie Haskel and Technicolor/Techniscope photography is by Ralph Woolsey. A brisk and ebullient Oater out of Paramount, Black Spurs finds Calhoun as Santee, a sharp shooting gunman turning to bounty hunting and then paid to corrupt the town of Lark. Lark has been pencilled in to receive the on coming railway, so wealthy town owner of nearby Kile, Gus…

Wuchak

2021-12-14

⭐ 7

_**How to turn a good Western town into a wicked one**_ In the late 1880s, a former ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter after developing as a gunman (Rory Calhoun). While his former-fiancé settles down with a good sheriff (Terry Moore & James Best), the now notorious bounty hunter is hired to tarnish the town’s reputation by operating a saloon and bringing in gambling & prostitution. The cast also includes the likes of Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr., Richard Arlen, Bruce Cabot and DeForest Kelley. “Black Spurs” (1965) tends to be dismissed because it’s an A.C. Lyles production; he was known …