Review by Gary Tooze

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• Isolated Score Track with some effects
• Original Theatrical Trailer (2:02)

• Liner notes by Julie Kirgo

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Description: Writer-director Frank D. Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) gives us, in From Noon Till Three (1976), an atypical Charles Bronson Western that’s also a clever meditation on myth versus reality. Bronson plays a reluctant desperado whose three-hour tryst with a lovely widow (Jill Ireland) is turned into the stuff of legend when he is mistakenly reported dead. Gorgeously shot by Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch), and highlighted by a superb Elmer Bernstein score, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

 

 

Bronson plays Graham Dorsey, a drifter outlaw who has a brief liaison with Amanda Starbuck (Ireland), and whom she later transforms after his "death" into an outlaw legend. Amanda builds a giant commercial empire based on her fictional stories about the now-infamous "Graham Dorsey," and his name is forever emblazoned on the history of the Old West. When Bronson turns up very much alive, however, no one, not even Amanda, recognizes him or will believe his protestations that he is Dorsey. He ends up in an insane asylum, where the doctors just nod and smile at his delusions of having been a great gunfighter.

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BOTTOM LINE:
From Noon to Three is a bit of an odd-duck for Bronson - a romance, western , comedy. I though Jill Ireland's performances was one of her best. She's pretty foxy and they have a 'chemistry' together - I can see why they hooked up. For its genre - it's above-average.  The Twilight Time Blu-ray provides as good an a/v transfer for the film as you're likely to ever find. It's not Bronson's 'typical' and that kind of adds some nice flavor to his body of work. To each his own.