Derek Winnert

The Covered Wagon ***** (1923, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, J Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 6834

Producer-director James Cruze’s trail-blazing 1923 silent Western is faded but important historically and it still impresses. Cruze’s major movie is one of the first American epics and notable for elevating the Western from popular potboiler to important epic. […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

The Cowboys **** (1972, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Sarah Cunningham, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 6,833

Mark Rydell’s 1972 movie The Cowboys is an unusual and successful Seventies Western with John Wayne giving one of his most impressive late performances as a tough cattleman who has to accept the help of […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

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

The Last Wagon **** (1956, Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Tommy Rettig, Susan Kohner, Ray Stricklyn, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6,831

Delmer Daves’s notable 1956 Western film The Last Wagon stars Richard Widmark as sheriff’s prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, who is forced to help a wagon train of settlers against hostile Apaches. Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s notable […]

Mar, 20

This Woman Is Dangerous ** (1952, Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 6830

Joan Crawford and her famous shoulder pads star in director Felix E Feist’s trashy but intense 1952 romantic film noir melodrama This Woman Is Dangerous, standard Fifties Crawford fare of a hard nut with a […]

Mar, 20

Cowboy *** (1958, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York, Richard Jaeckel, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6829

You don’t expect to find Jack Lemmon in a Western, but here he is in the entertaining and imaginative 1958 cowboy tale Cowboy, based on Frank Harris’s apocryphal autobiography My Reminiscences as a Cowboy On […]

Mar, 19

Drums Along the Mowhawk **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6828

Director John Ford’s sprawling and unfocused but exciting and colourful 1939 film tells the story about a group of farmers in upstate New York caught napping by Indian attacks during the Revolutionary War. Claudette Colbert […]

Mar, 19

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