Derek Winnert

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The Black Whip ** (1956, Hugh Marlowe, Coleen Gray, Adele Mara, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 9706

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1956 black and white Western film The Black Whip stars Hugh Marlowe as former Confederate officer Lorn Crawford, who, along with his brother Dewey Crawford (Richard Gilden), rescues four dance hall […]

May, 03

Saratoga Trunk ** (1945, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 9105

Director Sam Wood’s 1943 romantic drama Western movie Saratoga Trunk is an overblown, overextended film of Edna Ferber’s big novel about romance and revenge set against the background of the New Orleans railroad wars. Despite […]

Nov, 28

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]

Oct, 12

Hooper *** (1978, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, John Marley, James Best, Adam West, Robert Klein) – Classic Movie Review 6739

Director Hal Needham’s amiable 1978 action adventure comedy is a very typical Seventies vehicle for Burt Reynolds, re-teamed with his Smokey and the Bandit (1977) co-star Sally Field and its director Needham (a former Hollywood stuntman). […]

Feb, 26

Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295

The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]

Sep, 03

The Unforgiven **** (Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Doug McClure) – Classic Movie Review 1617

Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy and Doug McClure star as rancher brothers of the Zachary frontier family in this sterling, thoughtful Western directed by John Huston in 1960. Taken from a novel by Alan Le May who also wrote the […]

Sep, 01

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