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Fort Yuma ** (1955, Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson, Joan Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 12,555

Director Lesley Selander’s lusty 1955 Technicolor Western film Fort Yuma stars Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson and Joan Taylor. It found itself in a censorship row, and many violent scenes had to be cut. […]

Jun, 29

Allegheny Uprising *** (1939, Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 9504

John Wayne stars in director William A Seiter’s rousing 1939 Western action epic Allegheny Uprising [The First Rebel], set in 1759 in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Valley. Wayne plays an American frontier pioneer Jim Smith who leads […]

Mar, 14

Mask of the Avenger ** (1951, John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance) – Classic Movie Review 7819

Set in Italy in 1848, director Phil Karlson’s busy, action-packed and modestly entertaining 1951 period action adventure romp Mask of the Avenger is distantly related to its supposed source in Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count […]

Nov, 22

Unconquered *** (1947, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7695

Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille’s 1947 pioneer picture Unconquered, in which American colonists battle the Indians, is engagingly overblown and amusingly daft. It is shot in glorious Technicolor. Paulette Goddard plays Abby Hale, a cockney convict transported […]

Oct, 22

Tomahawk ** (1951, Van Heflin, Yvonne De Carlo, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 7579

Director George Sherman’s 1951 Universal International Pictures movie Tomahawk (aka The Battle of Powder River) is a fairly lively Western, set in Wyoming in the 1860s, and based on (or suggested by) a story by Daniel […]

Sep, 15

The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] *** (1955, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, Anne Bancroft, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 7296

Director Anthony Mann’s 1956 The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] is a slightly below-par, rather predictable Western from director Mann and writers Philip Yordan and Russell S Hughes, all of whom could be brilliant on a […]

Jul, 16

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

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