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 […]
‘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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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