Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]
Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]
There is plenty of wild West power in Republic Pictures’ 1950 Western film The Showdown, a sturdy story of a former sheriff (Wild Bill Elliott), hunting his brother’s killer. There is plenty of wild Western […]
Director George Seaton’s 1973 film Showdown is a generic, standard Western with solid if uninspired performances from Rock Hudson and Dean Martin as Chuck Jarvis and Billy Massey, boyhood friends estranged by their chosen careers […]
Director R G Springsteen’s dully conventional, but action-packed and busily plotted Audie Murphy 1963 Western film Showdown comes from towards the end of the war hero star’s considerable movie career. Ric Hardman [Bronson Howitzer]’s screenplay […]
The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]
The 1967 Western film Gunfight in Abilene stars Bobby Darin in a non-singing role as brave Rebel soldier Cal Wayne, and features Michael Sarrazin in his film début as a guileless tenderfoot. Director William Hale’s […]
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