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New Frontier [Frontier Horizon] ** (1939, John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7163

John Wayne stars as Stoney Brooke in George Sherman’s modest, predictable, but pretty robust 1939 Republic Pictures black and white support Western, in which The Three Mesquiteers help a village settlement against bad guys out […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

The New Frontier ** (1935, John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Al Bridge, Sam Flint) – Classic Movie Review 7162

John Wayne stars as quick-on-the-draw John Dawson in director Carl Pierson’s very modest, familiar 1935 Republic support Western The New Frontier, in which Wayne’s Dawson character turns lawman to hunt down the man who shot his father […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

City for Conquest *** (1940, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy, Frank McHugh, George Tobias, Anthony Quinn, Elia Kazan, Jerome Cowan, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 7,161

The arty, faded 1940 melodrama film City for Conquest stars James Cagney as a New York truck driver turned boxer who gets blinded by rosin dust from his opponent’s boxing gloves, while Ann Sheridan plays […]

Jun, 13

Task Force *** (1949, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Julie London, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7160

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s respectful and involving but surprisingly routine and rather ordinary 1949 World War Two drama stars Gary Cooper as US Navy chief Jonathan L Scott, who tries to persuade his bosses to back […]

Jun, 13

A Prayer Before Dawn **** (2017, Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Panya Yimmumphai, Billy Moore) – Movie Review

Gruelling and punishing but brilliantly done, and the kick-boxing kid Joe Cole is a knockout. Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s 2017 prison action drama biopic Prayer Before Dawn is a gruelling and punishing but brilliantly done true […]

Jun, 13

The Ciambra [A Ciambra] **** (2017, Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jonas Carpignano’s gritty, penetrating film of the painful coming of age from adolescence to adulthood, set in a small Romani community in Calabria, is really intense and immersive. The Ciambra [A Ciambra] (2017) tells […]

Jun, 13

The Rider **** (2017, Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau) – Movie Review

A heart-breakingly warm, empathetic people drama, about a head injured young rodeo cowboy and his horses, about a battle against the odds. The Rider (2017) is an incredibly warm, empathetic people drama, about a boy […]

Jun, 12

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