A middling Western, 1971’s Catlow is worth watching to see Yul Brynner tapping an inner rascal that no one even imagined existed. Brynner spent so much time in his career playing scowling, serious guys that it comes as a shock to see him as the sort of lusty scamp that Burt Lancaster and Errol Flynn used to specialize in. Catlow is a comedy, an adventure picture and a buddy film; it isn’t great

October 2010
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- Uno, Dos, Tres!
- Cowgirl 101 in Apache Country
- Uberti’s Wild West
- Trailing Alfred Jacob Miller in the West
- A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor
- The Tunstalls Return
- Exploding Ginger Snaps?
- Too Much Sun
- Outerwear Out West
- Celebration of Non-Indian, Indian Art
- C.M. Russell’s Illustrated Colt
- Mike Scovel
- Fort Davis, Texas
- What does “kack” refer to?
- Who is the namesake of Allen Street in Tombstone, Arizona?
- Did most Old West saloons have swinging doors?
- Were the Yaqui Indians the most fearsome warrior tribe?
- Were Hickok’s 1851 Navy Colts plated?
- What can you tell me about the eight-gauge shotgun in Streets of Laredo?
- Who was the first American to map the Columbia River Basin?
- Forget The Alamo