The cast suggests a lighthearted Western, but director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 Bandolero! is actually a showcase for tough fisticuffs and violent shootouts, as well as a showcase for its stars James Stewart, Dean Martin, […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s handsome, action-filled 1916 Mexican revolutionary adventure film Bandido! (1956 ) stars Robert Mitchum as arms trader Wilson, who supplies weapons to rebel colonel José Escobar (Roland) and outsmarts rival gunrunner Kennedy (Zachary Scott). […]
For his feature-length directorial debut, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Woody Allen re-dubs director Senkichi Taniguchi’s Japanese action spy film International Secret Police: Key of Keys, (1965) and makes it into a comedy about the […]
Director/ co-writer Woody Allen’s 1971 political satire comedy Bananas is rough but ready for raising lots of laughs. Allen also stars as New York milksop consumer products tester Fielding Mellish, who runs off to San […]
Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1980 buddy-buddy comedy crime drama The Baltimore Bullet boasts a good title, good stars and cast and a good director. The Baltimore Bullet is a rather likeable comic tale of a couple […]
Director Bo Widerberg’s 1971 Swedish historical biographical drama film The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] stars Thommy Berggren as the legendary Swedish-American agitator Joe Hill. At the start-of-the-last-century, Joe Hill (Berggren), a Swedish immigrant […]
Edward James Olmos stars as Mexican-American farmer Gregorio Cortez, who kills a sheriff, evades capture and becomes a folk hero, in Robert M Young’s impressive, stirring 1982 Western film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Director […]
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