One aspect of the movie that I find particularly appealing is the wonderful cast of ing actors: Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, Sheldon Leonard, to name but a few. Their portrayal of the citizens of Bedford Falls complements the lives of the main characters perfectly and helps make the film the classic that it is.

Quite agree. Having been a life-long watcher of JW movies, I found his latetr movies painful to watch; he was too old, too heavy, too everything to convincingly portray the same heroic parts.

McQ, Brannigan, The Shootist, and others were sad to watch. In fact, I've never seen The Shootist, just can't bring myself to.

I have watched Blood Alley numerous times and have always enjoyed it. It is fast-paced and with lots of action.

The reason it might get unfavorable reviews is because it was made at the height of the Cold War and is stridently anti-communist. The left-wing media would have planned it for that reason alone.

And Wayne's Karl Ehrlich role was in The Sea Chase, not The Searchers.