It’s nice Delmer Daves found a champion at Criterion but are Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma really worth much critical reconsideration? Why no love for the far superior westerns of Jacques Tourneur? Martin Scorsese makes a winning argument for The Red House, but Dark Passage would have been so much better without the POV camera. Talk about a missed opportunity! Still, Daves’ anti-westerns are probably the best of their lot and I feel sorry for anyone who can’t enjoy the campy fun of Rome Adventure and Youngblood Hawke.

1943  Destination Tokyo ***
1944  Hollywood Canteen ***
1945  Pride of the Marines ***1/2
1947  The Red House ***1/2
1947  Dark Passage ***1/2
1948  To the Victor **1/2
1950  Broken Arrow ***
1953  Never Let Me Go ***
1956  Jubal ***
1957  3:10 to Yuma ***1/2
1958  Cowboy ***
1958  Kings Go Forth **1/2
1959  The Hanging Tree ***
1959  A Summer Place ***
1961  Parrish ***
1961  Susan Slade ***
1962  Rome Adventure ***
1963  Spencer’s Mountain **1/2
1964  Youngblood Hawke ***