Derek Winnert

The Comancheros ** (1961, John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin, Bruce Cabot, Michael Ansara, Joan O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 6,436

John Wayne stars as a hard-bitten Texas Ranger Captain in the rough and tough 1961 American CinemaScope Western film The Comancheros, directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz in his last movie. John Wayne stars as […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Comanche Territory ** (1950, Maureen O’Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer, Charles Drake, James Best) – Classic Movie Review 6435

‘The Wild, Wanton Fury of 1,000 Howling Savages!’ Maureen O’Hara stars in George Sherman’s interestingly unconventional 1950 Western with a conventional story by Lewis Meltzer about a battle over land ownership. The US government has […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Ride Lonesome **** (1959, Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Coburn, Lee Van Cleef, James Best) – Classic Movie Review 6,434

Randolph Scott stars in the exceptional 1959 Western film Ride Lonesome as a bounty hunter who escorts a killer (James Best) to stand trial for murder, with the killer’s brother (Lee Van Cleef) in pursuit. […]

Dec, 19

Comanche Station **** (1960, Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins) –  Classic Movie Review 6433

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 […]

Dec, 19

The Deadly Companions *** (1961, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin, Will Wright) – Classic Movie Review 6432

‘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 […]

Dec, 19

7 Men from Now [Seven Men from Now] **** (1956, Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 6431

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 […]

Dec, 19

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430

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 […]

Dec, 19

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