Randolph Scott’s penultimate movie (and the last in his series of seven marvellous Westerns with director Budd Boetticher) is this excellent 1960 widescreen B-Western with an archetypal plot about a rancher loner Jefferson Cody (Scott) who […]
‘You don’t know me well enough to hate me that much.’ – Yellowleg. Director Sam Peckinpah’s first movie after making TV Westerns features Brian Keith as US Civil War Yankee sergeant Yellowleg, a gunfighter escorting […]
In 1955, screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote a screenplay entitled 7 Men from Now to be filmed by John Wayne’s Batjac Productions with Wayne as star and Budd Boetticher as director. But Wayne was committed to John Ford’s The Searchers and suggested his Republican friend Scott instead after Gary Cooper turned […]
Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]
Director Joseph Losey brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s magnificent opera masterpiece to the screen as a marvellous 1979 film of fire and water, lit like a golden Canaletto but lapped by the rancid waters of Venice’s murkier […]
Walter Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven and Paul Lukas star in director William Wyler’s heartwarming, life-affirming 1936 film from producer Samuel Goldwyn. Production designer Richard Day won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, and […]
The great Japanese writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s fascinating 1990 fantasy drama film is deeply personal work from the maestro, then aged 80, based on his actual dreams. It was Golden Globe nominated as Best Foreign Language […]
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