This strongly felt, nostalgic 1957 personal project from director John Ford turns out to be an uneven, minor airborne action drama providing an interesting but bumpy ride. But there are lots of incidental real pleasures […]
Best friends in real life, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara star together for the fourth of their five movies in director Andrew V McLaglen’s thoroughly enjoyable, typically raucous, rowdy romantic comedy Western. There are some soapy […]
Director George Sherman’s robust 1971 Western sees an ageing John Wayne coming towards the end of the trail as Big Jake McCandles, an old Texas cattleman chasing John Fain (Richard Boone)’s bloodthirsty gang who have […]
The brilliant 1959 Western film Last Train from Gun Hill comes from the star, director and producer of Gunfight at the OK Corral. Kirk Douglas stars as Marshal Matt Morgan, determined to bring his wife’s […]
Robert Aldrich’s classic 1956 anti-war film Attack! is as uncompromising as it is powerful. It is one of the all-time great World War Two movies. Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s classic 1956 war movie, or rather anti-war […]
Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical 1980 war film is spellbinding. His raw, realistic screenplay is based on Fuller’s own experiences of World War Two, as true to historical facts and his personal philosophy as he could make it. The […]
Director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1980 film version of the well-known, much told story of the Jesse James outlaw gang of bank robbers starts with the useful gimmick of four sets of actual brothers in the star parts […]
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