James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich star in the hit Western “Destry Rides Again” in a one-time screening at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library auditorium on Friday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m.
Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
Destry proves far from the milquetoast rube he seems to be when, shortly after he appears as a stagecoach passenger whittling a napkin ring and drawling one of his moral anecdotes at the 20-minute ...
And Dietrich was never more exuberantly showcased than in the supremely enjoyable 1939 western “Destry Rides Again.” Until the other day I’d seen excerpts, and its most famous musical number, “The ...
Released in 1939 - widely agreed upon as the keystone year of the Golden Age Hollywood studio system - Destry Rides Again is an odd nexus point, not only of genres, but of the careers of its stars. As ...