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Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] **** (1955, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Yves Robert, Brigitte Bardot) – Classic Movie Review 10,207

Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]

Aug, 21

Ambush ** (1950, Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 10,109

Director Sam Wood’s 1950 black and white Western film Ambush stars Robert Taylor as US army Indian scout Ward Kinsman, who leads the posse to the Apache chief (Chief Thundercloud) who has abducted a girl, […]

Jul, 30

Santiago [The Gun Runner] ** (1956, Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà, Lloyd Nolan, Chill Wills, Paul Fix, L Q Jones, Frank DeKova) – Classic Movie Review 9106

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1956 romantic adventure movie Santiago stars Alan Ladd and Lloyd Nolan as Cash Adams and Clay Pike, rival gunrunners aboard an old-time paddle steamer at the time of the Cuban war of […]

Nov, 29

Only the Valiant *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney Jr, Barbara Payton, Neville Brand, Jeff Corey, Warner Anderson, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 6952

‘THEY WERE SIX AND THEY FOUGHT LIKE SIX HUNDRED!’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 Western is based on the 1943 novel by Charles Marquis Warren and is basically a dirty-half-dozen, with plenty of manly appeal. Gregory Peck […]

Apr, 21

They Came to Cordura ** (1959, Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan, Dick York) – Classic Movie Review 6825

Director Robert Rossen’s 1959 Western, based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout, is set in 1916 on the Mexican border. The movie is intelligent and interesting, but moderate and sedate. Rossen’s historical adventure drama is enlivened […]

Mar, 19

The Undefeated ** (1969, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Antonio Aguilar, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 6732

Even an enormous cast of renowned outdoor movie character players, a costly $7 million plus production and the big name star pairing of John Wayne and Rock Hudson cannot quite save director Andrew V McLaglen’s […]

Feb, 24

Last of the Comanches *** (1953, Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6690

Director André De Toth brings adroit, way more than merely just adequate handling to a standard, unsurprising US Cavalry versus the Indians tale about a group of stranded soldiers facing a remorseless Native American raid […]

Feb, 14

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