Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s sombre but distinguished 1949 drama is bizarrely the first of three movies written by screenwriter Philip Yordan based on the same novel, I’ll Never Go Home Again by Jerome Weidman. Winning the Best […]
Talented producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s high-climbing 1956 drama provides more evidence that mountain movies are fiendishly tricky to do, as they higher they climb the farther they fall. Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner play brothers Zachary […]
Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]
Chris O’Donnell is nice but lacks fire and steel as reporter-ambulance driver-author Ernest Hemingway, though Sandra Bullock fares better as feisty Agnes von Kurowsky, the nurse who looks after him after being wounded in World […]
The 1958 movie In Love and War is the third pairing of Fifties heartthrobs Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Wagner, telling the story of the World War Two lives and loves of three US Marines. Director […]
The 1957 action biopic The True Story of Jesse James takes a fresh look at the Western tale of the James Brothers, and has strong work from Robert Wagner (as Jesse James) and Jeffrey Hunter […]
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