BROADWAY TO CHEYENNE – gangster hats in cowboy country

I’ll be honest, when I first flicked on “Broadway to Cheyenne” (from all the way back in 1932!), I mostly wanted to check if the sound would work on my absolute rickety VHS player. Åh, the age of tape. I ended up totally sucked in, though. Bobs Worth, our boy here, played by Rex Bell – and there’s a name that should be on more old-school posters in every Swedish video rental, just sayin’ – tries to escape a bunch of city baddies by high-tailing it out west. Classic setup but juicy anyway. I kept thinking they’d serve him a proper Stockholm korv med bröd at some whisky joint, but nope, just dust and mean faces.

Mary Nolan pops up too, and she’s got those eyes, you know, a bit lost, a bit “don’t mess with me.” I reckon this is what people mean when they talk about “screen presence,” but it honestly just made me want to dig out my grandad’s hat collection. Then you’ve got the super-familiar faces of guys like William “Stage” Boyd and Wheeler Oakman stirring up trouble. George Melford directed and I double-checked, he’s the same guy who did some of those old Dracula flicks. Talk about a speedrun of genres.

I’m sitting here remembering that time, must’ve been midsummer 1997, mamma tried to mix city and country life at our summer stuga out by Vänern. Dad came storming out with his ‘fancy’ New York jacket and had to round up the cows in proper western style – nearly lost his phone and looked NILLY exactly like Rex in the big showdown. So this weird crossover, big city tough meets cowboy grit, it actually kinda hits home. Who’da thought?

Is it perfect? Nah. The plot’s like a sulky horse: wants to go but keeps looking back. But if you’ve got a soft spot for horses, peashooters, and gangsters that say things like “Scram!” in a way we Swedes just can’t pull off… this is a real fika treat. Pretty wild to think they were already mixing genres almost a hundred years ago. Maybe a little ahead of its time, or maybe just stuck in between, like me deciding between coffee and snus.

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