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Posts Tagged "wagon train"

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Escort West ** (1959, Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue) – Classic Movie Review 11,919

Director Francis D Lyon’s 1959 black and white CinemaScope Western film Escort West stars Victor Mature in an old, tediously over-familiar story about the former Confederate officer Ben Lassiter (Mature) and his 10-year-old daughter Abbey […]

Feb, 09

The Oregon Trail ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull, John Carradine, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 10,631

Fred MacMurray stars as Eastern newspaper reporter Neal Harris, who comes West on a wagon-train pioneers story and helps to smooth the way between Indians and settlers in mid-19th century Oregon, in co-writer/ director Gene […]

Dec, 05

The Outriders ** (1950, Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr, Ramon Novarro, James Whitmore, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Martin Garralaga) – Classic Movie Review 10,273

Director Roy Rowland’s 1950 film The Outriders stars Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan and James Whitmore as three US Civil War soldiers who escape from a Yankee jail and join a wagon train carrying gold, which […]

Sep, 07
The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Western film The Way West stars the heavy-weight trio of Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark, who make the most of this panoramic saga of a wagon train’s trek […]

Feb, 29

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

Westward Ho, the Wagons! *** (1956, Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 7155

Director William Beaudine’s 1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a Walt Disney Wild West adventure for family consumption that lacks both the kind of vim and grit we expect from Westerns but it is entirely […]

Jun, 11

Jubal **** (1956, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Rod Steiger, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 6832

Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Felicia Farr, Rod Steiger and Valerie French star in an impressive early Delmer Daves psychological Western movie, a tragic morality tale, intriguingly inspired by or loosely based on William Shakespeare’s Othello, though it is actually […]

Mar, 20

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