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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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