Director William Wyler’s 1940 The Westerner stars Gary Cooper as moody, heroic cow-hand Cole Harden, who battles against dreaded hanging judge Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) in an epic classic Western managed outstandingly well by director […]
Westward Ho (1935) is John Wayne’s first film for Republic Pictures and it is also the studio’s first production. It was a hit and hugely profitable. It cost only $35,000, or possibly only $17,000 (depending on the […]
John Wayne stars in Rainbow Valley (1935) as John Martin, who is revealed as a government undercover agent by gunman bad guy Butch Galt (Buffalo Bill Jr, aka Jay Wilsey), in director Robert N Bradbury’s modest, quickly […]
Director Carl L Pierson’s 1935 Monogram movie Western Paradise Canyon is an earlyish visit to Wayne’s world, in which the youngish Big John (though he was now 28) plays government agent John Wyatt, who goes undercover […]
The unjustly forgotten 1960 romantic comedy film The Rat Race stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as a struggling saxophonist and a taxi dancer, who live together and struggle to get ahead in the dog-eat-dog […]
Writer-director Sophie Brooks’s 2017 Woody Allen-style romantic comedy drama The Boy Downstairs is pleasant, amusing and charming, with a pleasing, bitter-sweet situation, some good funny lines and appealing performances. Zosia Mamet plays a pleasantly confused […]
James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara are attractive and appealing stars but they are largely wasted in director Andrew V McLaglen’s lethargic, sentimental 1966 Western that is as clean as a whistle, with smooth performances, a […]
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