Star Trek has a good deal of leeway when it comes to killing someone off. Alien planets, high technology, and general outer space weirdness provide every conceivable reason for a fatality. It can often present an intriguing mystery for the crew to spend an episode or two solving. Explanations require some delicacy in order to fit with canon and make logical sense, but beyond that, there's no limit to the plausible explanations for how someone might die.
Even so, no franchise is perfect, and the sheer volume of stories that Star Trek has told over the years means that explanations sometimes fail. On more than one occasion, characters have been killed off in ways that help the plot work, but make very little sense in retrospect. Most of the time, it comes with a reasonable trade-off, and the ensuring story is strong enough to justify the plot hole. Despite that,...
Even so, no franchise is perfect, and the sheer volume of stories that Star Trek has told over the years means that explanations sometimes fail. On more than one occasion, characters have been killed off in ways that help the plot work, but make very little sense in retrospect. Most of the time, it comes with a reasonable trade-off, and the ensuring story is strong enough to justify the plot hole. Despite that,...
- 2/15/2025
- by Robert Vaux
- CBR
By Fred Blosser
Kino Lorber has released the obscure 1969 Western “More Dead Than Alive” in a Blu-ray edition. Discharged from prison in 1891 after serving an eighteen-year sentence for murder, legendary gunslinger Cain (Clint Walker) determines to stay away from firearms, find honest work, and save enough money to buy a ranch. But his reputation as “Killer” Cain precedes him, and chances for employment are slim until he encounters conniving showman Dan Ruffalo (Vincent Price). “People would have something to talk about, if they could see you using this notched Colt of yours,” Ruffalo chortles. He encourages Cain to cash in on his notoriety and join Ruffalo’s traveling show as its star sharpshooting attraction, relegating the show’s current marksman, Billy (Paul Hampton), to a subsidiary role. Monica, a free-spirited artist (Anne Francis), strikes up a friendship with Cain and thinks it’s a bad idea for him to pick up a gun again,...
Kino Lorber has released the obscure 1969 Western “More Dead Than Alive” in a Blu-ray edition. Discharged from prison in 1891 after serving an eighteen-year sentence for murder, legendary gunslinger Cain (Clint Walker) determines to stay away from firearms, find honest work, and save enough money to buy a ranch. But his reputation as “Killer” Cain precedes him, and chances for employment are slim until he encounters conniving showman Dan Ruffalo (Vincent Price). “People would have something to talk about, if they could see you using this notched Colt of yours,” Ruffalo chortles. He encourages Cain to cash in on his notoriety and join Ruffalo’s traveling show as its star sharpshooting attraction, relegating the show’s current marksman, Billy (Paul Hampton), to a subsidiary role. Monica, a free-spirited artist (Anne Francis), strikes up a friendship with Cain and thinks it’s a bad idea for him to pick up a gun again,...
- 7/4/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By John M. Whalen
“Barquero”(1970) stars Lee Van Cleef as Travis, an ex-gunslinger living a quiet life as the owner/operator of a barge that is the only way to cross the river at a certain spot between Texas and Mexico. When we first see him he’s in bed with Nola (Marie Gomez), a hot looking Mexican chick who likes to suck on cigarillos. Everything’s fine until the creepy Fair (John Davis Chandler) shows up at his doorstep leering down at the naked Nola and says he and two men with him want to go across the water to Texas. Travis doesn’t like the way he’s looking at Nola and tells him “A ride across the river is all your money’s going to buy.” They get across and Fair pulls a gun on him and tells his amigos to tie him up.
Meanwhile, in a...
“Barquero”(1970) stars Lee Van Cleef as Travis, an ex-gunslinger living a quiet life as the owner/operator of a barge that is the only way to cross the river at a certain spot between Texas and Mexico. When we first see him he’s in bed with Nola (Marie Gomez), a hot looking Mexican chick who likes to suck on cigarillos. Everything’s fine until the creepy Fair (John Davis Chandler) shows up at his doorstep leering down at the naked Nola and says he and two men with him want to go across the water to Texas. Travis doesn’t like the way he’s looking at Nola and tells him “A ride across the river is all your money’s going to buy.” They get across and Fair pulls a gun on him and tells his amigos to tie him up.
Meanwhile, in a...
- 4/16/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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