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Timberjack ** (1955, Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, Adolphe Menjou, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 11,461

Director Joseph Kane’s 1955 American Trucolor Western film Timberjack is a lumbering tale of rivalry and revenge set in the backwoods of Montana in the late 1800s. Tim Chipman (Hayden) proves that he is a […]

Aug, 08

Cowboys **** (2020, Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Sasha Knight, Ann Dowd, Gary Farmer) – Movie Review

Writer-director Anna Kerrigan’s 2020 drama Cowboys stars Steve Zahn as a troubled father Troy (Steve Zahn), going to hell with good intentions. He has recently separated from his wife Sally (Jillian Bell) and runs off […]

Mar, 23

The Showdown *** (1950, Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 9699

There is plenty of wild Western ‘man’s gotta do’ power in this sturdy story of a former sheriff, Shadrach Jones (Bill [William] Elliott), hunting his brother’s killer, who hoves up in a dodgy gambling saloon, in […]

May, 01

Red Skies of Montana [Smoke Jumpers] ** (1952, Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 9538

The three Richards – Richard Widmark, Richard Boone and Richard Crenna – star in director Joseph M Newman’s 1952 action adventure drama Red Skies of Montana [Smoke Jumpers], a run-of-the-mill tale of US Forest Service […]

Mar, 21

Cattle Queen of Montana ** (1954, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 8157

Cult director Allan Dwan’s tame though acceptable 1954 Western Cattle Queen of Montana stars Barbara Stanwyck as the battling cattle queen Sierra Nevada Jones, who fights to protect her cattle from raids by both renegade Indians and […]

Feb, 20

Flame of Barbary Coast ** (1945, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6745

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Feb, 27

Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]

Mar, 05

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