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Review: The Man From Colorado (1948)

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Glenn Ford and William Holden go toe to toe in this notable western from 1948. 1948's The Man From Colorado marks, to my knowledge, the second and final team-up of Glenn Ford and William Holden on the silver screen. They'd both appeared in another western 7 years earlier, 1941's Texas , a breezy little film that doesn't quite walk the line between drama and comedy as easily as it wishes it did. In Texas , they'd had a remarkable chemistry that stemmed from a real-life friendship developed despite the intentions of Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures; Cohn had hired them at the same time with the belief that they'd see each other as competition, thus working harder for the studio in fear of losing roles to each other. 1941's Texas found the two young actors starring as scruffy outcasts, upstarts looking for a break. 1948's The Man from Colorado finds the two actors boys no more, but grown men. One need not look very far to discover why: in

Unboxing and review: Elvis Presley - The RCA Albums Collection

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to open a box set containing almost all of Elvis Presley's output over 60 CDs? It's exactly like this video that I made to capture the moment.