In a recent column taking exception to the American Film Institute’s survey of the 100 best American romance movies, I noted the list’s unforgivable omission of King Vidor’s 1946 Western “Duel in the ...
"You have no idea what's going on here!" Lionsgate Premiere has debuted a trailer for a film called The Duel, formerly known as By Way of Helena, a western about a Texas Ranger who takes on an ...
Publicity materials describe The Duel as a western, but except for the fact that it unfolds in Texas, in the aftermath of the war between the U.S. and Mexico, it doesn’t resemble anything by John Ford ...
This sadistic pulp-revisionist Western starts so well that you might feel something like loss as it ends: The Duel could have been something. The opening is all evocative mud and blood as a pair of ...