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Director Duccio Tessari’s impressive 1965 Italian-Spanish spaghetti Western The Return of Ringo [Il Ritorno di Ringo] is the quick sequel to his popular A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and again stars Giuliano Gemma (again billed […]
Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire head the worthy cast of the friendly 1956 movie Friendly Persuasion, a tale of the Quaker Birdwell family’s hardships in Southern Indiana in 1862 during the American Civil War. Gary […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 biopic Young Tom Edison stars the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is conscientious in the star part in this plush, well-crafted first part of MGM’s two-film biography of the inventor Thomas Alva […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s ambitious 1937 RKO Radio Pictures black and white comedy drama tackles the lively subject of 19th-century tycoonery in a fairy tale poor-man-makes-good biopic of Wall Street’s Jim Fisk – not a name on […]
Randolph Scott – ‘greater than ever in 3D’ – stars as Jeff Travis, a law-abiding citizen who spies for Quantrill’s raiders during the Civil War and then flees to Arizona, where he is forced into a […]
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint star in MGM’s extravagant 1957 American epic historical romantic Western war film Raintree County, based on Ross Lockridge Jr’s 1948 novel. A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role […]
Errol Flynn stars in Michael Curtiz’s 1940 American historical drama film Santa Fe Trail as officer Jeb Stuart, who is posted to Kansas in 1854 to help pacify the territory for railroad construction. The 1941 […]