#dick ayers

I recently spent some time watching a batch of classic Tim Holt Westerns on TCM, and it reminded me just how popular these B-movie adventures were in their day. Between 1947 and 1952, Holt teamed up with his unforgettable sidekick Chito in 29 Westerns that delivered action, humor, and plenty of Old West excitement. Chito, whose full name was the wonderfully over-the-top Chito Jose Gonzales…

SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANOS wasn’t a war comic, not in the way that i understood that term. It wasn’t at all attempting to get across the true horror and cost or warfare. Instead, it was a war movie, a big, grand, fun adventure where the enemy were clowns and caricatures and nobody really got all that hurt despite all of the bullets and bombs flying everywhere. In a sense, it did the…