Swayze's Best Film

I was sad to learn the news about Patrick Swayze. If you want to see one of his best flicks this week may I suggest Red Dawn! Great conservative film!

High Noon (United Artists 1952)

OK. OK.

I was wrong.

Even your superior conservative movie guide can make a mistake every once in a while, and I made a big one. About the time I started this blog, I reviewed a John Wayne film titled Rio Bravo. In the review, I compared this movie to High Noon and blasted the Gary Cooper classic as a "liberal film". In fact John Wayne, who was friends with Cooper, told him personally that High Noon just didn't have a great American story. Wayne believed the town in High Noon should have supported their sherrif and fought with him, which I agree.

However when you watch this film, keep in mind today's events. Here is the plot for High Noon from IMDb...

On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, lawman Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station.

With the election coming up I find this movie NOW a fitting tribute to George W. Bush and the War on Terror, especially when you watch the final scene (below) with Cooper after he shoots Frank Miller and embraces Grace Kelly. I love Cooper's expression at the end.



It says to me, "I fought all your demons. I protected you with my own life. And still you despise me. Good luck with your new Sheriff."

Well...we might need more than luck if Obama turns out to be our new protector in my opinion.

Tick tock...tick tock...tick tock...



I am proud to say High Noon is the Edge Conservative Movie of the Week!

Evelyn (United Artists 2002)

Without knowing it, I guess I'm keeping the single parent theme for movies of the week (Last week was a similar movie called Trouble Along the Way)!

What would happen if the government came to your house and said your parenting skills really suck and we're taking your kids? I'm betting most of you would not just hand them over. Well, neither would Desmond Doyle, an Irish single dad who took on not only Ireland's Government but the Catholic Church to bring his children home.

Here is the movie summary from Internet Movie Database...

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Fighting government and power at the highest levels makes Evelyn the Edge Conservative Movie of the Week!

Here is the trailer...




I'm not a big fan of Irish music...maybe you guys are...

Red Dawn (United Artists 1984)

If you've never seen this movie before consider yourself fortunate that you visited Edge's Conservative Movies today! This is arguably THE most conservative themed movie ever made... and wouldn't you know a super-lib like Charlie Sheen would star in it. Oh well, I learned my lesson from Cinderella Man.

It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops....under the banner of 'Woverines'!

If you own a gun you're gonna love this movie...I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! Why?!? BECAUSE WE LIVE HERE!




GOOD STUFF!