This blog is dedicated to "unamerican" Western, and what could be more unamerican than a Russo-Cuban movie produced during the apex of the Cold War era? In "Vsadnik nez golovy", based on the novel "The Headless Horseman" by Scots-Irish novelist Thomas Mayne Reid, the Crimea stands in for Texas, Cubans represent Mexicans, and "Western traditions" … Continue reading Всадник без головы (1973) →