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The Rainmaker **** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 7175

Director Joseph Anthony’s 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for two great stars in Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this conscientious, well-crafted and appealing film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. […]

Jun, 16 · in Uncategorized

The Fighting Kentuckian *** (1949, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 7174

John Wayne plays Kentucky frontiersman militiaman John Breen and is again paired with his studio boss’s wife Vera Ralston as the upper-crust French woman Fleurette De Marchand he falls for, in writer-director George Waggner’s so-so, middling […]

Jun, 15 · in Uncategorized

The Fighting Seabees **** (1944, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7173

In the last year of his five-year contract with Republic Pictures signed just before the success of 1939’s Stagecoach, John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees, one of the studio’s typical B-movie wartime […]

Jun, 15

Flying Tigers *** (1942, John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7172

John Wayne stars in the 1942 black and white movie Flying Tigers as Airman Jim Gordon who leads a Flying Tigers squadron in the US fight against the Japanese, with the help of his seasoned […]

Jun, 15

Wake of the Red Witch *** (1948, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Adele Mara, Eduard Franz, Grant Withers, Henry Daniell, Paul Fix, Dennis Hoey, Jeff Corey, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 7171

Macho rivalries in the 1860s South Seas between John Wayne’s Red Witch skipper Captain Ralls and Luther Adler’s unscrupulous Dutch ship owning tycoon Mayrant Ruysdaal Sidneye are fought out against the backdrop of gorgeous Polynesian scenery in director Edward […]

Jun, 15

The Lucky Texan ** (1934, John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Lloyd Whitlock, Eddie Parker, Earl Dwire) – Classic Movie Review 7170

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1933 The Lucky Texan stars John Wayne as young Texan Jerry Mason, who strikes gold with his miner sidekick Jake ‘Grandy’  Benson (George ‘Gabby’ Hayes). Then they make the mistake of […]

Jun, 15

Winds of the Wasteland ** (1936, John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, Douglas Cosgrove, Lane Chandler, Sam Flint, Bob Kortman) – Classic Movie Review 7169

‘A six-shooter writes the law as war flames on the range! Adventure – as bullets blaze the pioneer trail!’ – well, they are selling it well! Director Mack V Wright’s 1936 Winds of the Wasteland […]

Jun, 15

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