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Frontier Marshal *** (1934, George O’Brien, Irene Bentley, George E Stone, Alan Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 11,930

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1934 Western film Frontier Marshal stars George O’Brien, Irene Bentley, George E Stone and Alan Edwards. George O’Brien plays lawman Wyatt Earp (though he is actually named Michael Wyatt for legal reasons) […]

Feb, 13

The Fastest Gun Alive *** (1956, Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 10,557

The Fastest Gun Alive belongs to Cross Creek storekeeper George Temple (Glenn Ford), who, although he wants to hand up his holster, has to prove his gun speed again and again after three bank robbers […]

Nov, 18

‘Doc’ *** (1971, Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 8726

The late, lamented, highly talented director Frank Perry (David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife) turns his hand to the 1971 ‘Doc’, a useful spaghetti Western about sharp-shooting poker gambler Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), […]

Jul, 18

Masterson of Kansas * (1954, George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, William Henry, David Bruce, Bruce Cowling) – Classic Movie Review 7029

Given the wealth of material available in the legends surrounding these real-life characters, director William Castle’s 1954 movie is an unnecessarily dull Western about the trio of famous gunslingers Bat Masterson (George Montgomery), Doc Holliday […]

May, 10

Frontier Marshal **** (1939, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Jon Hall, John Carradine, Binnie Barnes, Joe Sawyer, Lon Chaney Jr, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 6947

‘I’M THE LAW IN TOMBSTONE.’ Director Allan Dwan 1939 Western is the second film of Stuart N Lake’s book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, following Lewis Seiler’s Frontier Marshal (1934). Lake’s biography, published two years after Earp’s death […]

Apr, 19

Sunset **** (1988, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 6538

Writer-director Blake Edwards teasingly says at the end of his fanciful 1988 comedy crime, mystery thriller movie: ‘And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two.’ The story starts with the […]

Jan, 09

Tombstone **** (1993, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang) – Classic Movie Review 4,169

George Cosmatos’s 1993 film Tombstone stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and is written by Kevin Jarre, the original director, fired early in production. The film was a hit […]

Aug, 13

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