From: clough@texas.net   
      
   rgraham wrote:   
   > I was always partial to The Long Riders. It seemed historical?? Its the way   
   > my minds eye pictured it.   
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   If you've got an eye for a certain authenticity in the details of   
   westerns, take a critical look at South of Heaven, West of Hell. It's   
   really not a good film. There are problems with the cinematography, and   
   the script was far too complex for a country singer's first stab at   
   directing.   
      
   But, in many ways it was far more authentic than almost any western   
   (although this film is not really old west) I can recall. Sets and some   
   of the costumes rang very true. And the shoot-out struck me strongly as   
   perhaps the only western I have ever seen in which men fought with guns   
   in very much the way those things happen.   
      
   Those who like their western shoot-outs in the traditional cinema style   
   will be disappointed - just as they would be disappointed with a real   
   incident captured by a magical time-traveling camera. In the film, it's   
   a confused, frantic shit-storm - just like the real thing. You don't   
   often see than, and it's very rare in western films.   
      
   In much of the film, there's a realistic feel of civilzation drawn thin   
   and dirty on the frontier. As I said, it wasn't a good film, but it's   
   worth a look, just as a matter of interest in how the west is   
   represented in film.   
      
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                          Gerald Clough   
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