Way of a Gaucho

7/16/2017

Go with God! Or the Devil? Way of a Gaucho is directed by Jacques Tourneur and adapted to screenplay by Philip Dunne from the Herbert Childs novel. It stars Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane and Enrique Chaico. Music is by Sol Kaplan and cinematography by Harry Jackson. 1875 Argentina, and after killing a man, gaucho Martin Penalosa (Calhoun) is sentenced to serve army duty. Not one to be conformist, Martin deserts and becomes a leader of bandits. A most pleasing Oater filmed predominantly out of Argentina and in Technicolor, story essentially revolves around Penalosa's refusal to accept progress, where his beloved Pampas is set to see its landscape changed. With him already having a non conformist attitude anyway, the impending railroad incur

9/9/2022

Rory Calhoun is "Martin Penalosa" a man found guilty of murder who is sentenced to serve his time in the army. It doesn't take him long to realise that this isn't the life for him, and so he absconds and joins a band of banditos where, alongside his now pregnant girlfriend (a smouldering and sultry Gene Tierney), he tries to start a whole new - and eventful - life for himself as freedom fighter "Val Verde". Richard Boone always excelled as the nasty piece of work in these kind of films, and here - as the pursuing "Salinas" - who was his commanding officer before he deserted - he is on good form as a newly appointed police chief whose whole mission in life is now to nail Calhoun's slats to the mast! It does run a bit to language - and pretty clunky language at that, but there is enough acti