the vibe
Richard Sale’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, clear, gritty
pacing
Highest-ranked title
Richard Sale has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Dir. Lewis Allen · With Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson