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Showdown ** (1973, Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark – Classic Movie Review 9698

Director George Seaton’s 1973 film Showdown is a generic, standard Western with solid if uninspired performances from Rock Hudson and Dean Martin as Chuck Jarvis and Billy Massey, boyhood friends estranged by their chosen careers […]

May, 01

Showdown ** (1963, Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 9697

Director R G Springsteen’s dully conventional, but action-packed and busily plotted Audie Murphy 1963 Western film Showdown comes from towards the end of the war hero star’s considerable movie career. Ric Hardman [Bronson Howitzer]’s screenplay […]

May, 01

The Desert Trail ** (1935, John Wayne, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6048

Director Cullen Lewis’s 1935 Western stars John Wayne as big-time rodeo rider star John Scott, who fights on the side of the law, in this routine Monogram studios B-movie. It is taken at a good lick […]

Sep, 24

The Star Packer ** (1934, John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 6047

‘He fought for justice–and battled for love! He fought for JUSTICE!– Battled for LOVE!’ Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s brisk-paced, cheaply made early John Wayne B-Western, made in 1934, is the star’s first movie for poverty […]

Sep, 24

The Hi-Lo Country *** (1998, Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3397

Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]

Feb, 21

Winchester ’73 ***** (1953, James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally) – Classic Movie Review 638

James Stewart stars in this landmark 1953 Western in which he plays Lin McAdam, whose marksmanship competition winner’s prize Winchester rifle is stolen at a contest by the runner-up next-in-line, Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally). McAdam’s […]

Jan, 06

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