oater

It's a kind of screwball oater (at least half-aware that the audience was beginning to laugh at the conventions).

Saddled with a pretentious and senseless screenplay about Billy the Kid, this lame oater drags all parties down with it.

He peppers his speech with "y'all," and together they travel to dusty towns that look as if they might have been built for a Roy Rogers oater.

Yet it has little more profoundly at its core than the average John Wayne oater, in which men have got to do what men have got to do.

In this 1951 oater, Mr. Douglas plays a conscientious U.S. marshal who saves Walter Brennan from being lynched.

In 1933, Daily Variety was started in California to track the film business, coining such expressions as cliffhanger, boffo, oater (a western) and ankle (to quit a job).

Upon release of the series' first film Six-Gun Rhythm, Grand National went belly-up, leaving the oater in limited distribution and its newest star in the lurch.

The look is Western reimagined for Westchester - an over-the-top stage set for an old oater, in which cowboys were quick on the draw and quicker to prove it.

The next coldest was "Pale Rider," a 1985 Eastwood oater about an avenging gunman raised from the grave by a little girl's prayers, unless I misunderstood the symbolism.

While trying to run a trading post at the depths of the Great Depression, Harry Goulding heard that a Hollywood director was looking for the perfect Western backdrop for his next oater.

It would be a good book, she thought, but she didn't think it was quite 'ready' yet, whatever that meant (a sardonic mimic awoke in her mind, doing an Orson Welles voice: We will write no oater before its time).

Todd McCarthy of the Variety staff believed the film was "nothing rousing or new" and that Brosnan along with Neeson wouldn't be enough "to muster more than modest theatrical B.O. for this very physical but familiar oater."

Maybe the foreign language made this oater seem more scrambled than it was in the original tongue, but we quickly got used to hearing Italian epithets spit forth by such un-Mediterranean types as McQueen, Mr. Malden and Arthur Kennedy.

Reviewing the DVD release in 2013, Gene Triplett of The Oklahoman called the film an "amiable oater" with a plot that "may sound like potential corn on the cob to some" but turns out to be "unexpectedly well-crafted entertainment".

One low-budget oater of the era, made totally outside the studio system, profited from an outrageous concept: a Western with an all-midget cast, The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) was such a success in its independent bookings that Columbia picked it up for distribution.

He starred in the pathetic oater "Johnny Concho" as what is best described as an anorexic gunslinger and was sublimely ridiculous as a Spanish partisan mixing it up with Napoleon during the Peninsular War in "The Pride and the Passion."

Film writer Jeff Stafford stated that, "unlike most of Murphy's earlier Westerns, No Name on the Bullet has a philosophical edge which makes it closer in tone to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) than a six-gun oater like Destry (1954)".