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El Condor ** (1970, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 7635

Director John Guillermin’s rough and tough 1970 spaghetti Western El Condor stars Lee Van Cleef and Jim Brown, who play adventurers Jaroo and Luke planning to raid a heavily armed Mexican fortress, commanded by Chavez (Patrick O’Neal), and steal its rumoured […]

Oct, 03

Tomahawk Trail ** (1957, Chuck Connors, John Smith, Susan Cummings, Lisa Montell, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 7577

In David Chandler’s screenplay from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, a US Cavalry Sergeant relieves his incompetent lieutenant Jonathan Davenport (George N Neise) of command of a patrol after he has led the patrol into an Apache ambush […]

Sep, 15

The Last Wagon **** (1956, Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Tommy Rettig, Susan Kohner, Ray Stricklyn, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6,831

Delmer Daves’s notable 1956 Western film The Last Wagon stars Richard Widmark as sheriff’s prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, who is forced to help a wagon train of settlers against hostile Apaches. Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s notable […]

Mar, 20

Ulzana’s Raid **** (1972, Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel, Jorge Luke, Lloyd Bochner, Joaquin Martinez) – Classic Movie Review 6545

Robert Aldrich directs this very superior 1972 revenge Western with remarkable energy and his usual shameless morals. After years of sympathetic treatment by Hollywood, the Native Americans are brought back to be portrayed once again […]

Jan, 10

Duel at Diablo *** (1966, James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Bill Travers, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 6456

Director Ralph Nelson’s strong 1966 movie is basically an old-fashioned Fifties-style action Western with some Sixties trappings, such as an African American star, added violence, and a Neal Hefti score, none of which you’d have […]

Dec, 23

The Wonderful Country *** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Charles McGraw, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 6352

‘ The pistolero…who was as proud as the mighty black stallion he rode…the man who hungered for the softness of a woman and the clean skies of The Wonderful Country!’ They sure don’t write ’em like […]

Dec, 03

Taza, Son of Cochise *** (1954, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 6304

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 3D Western is his sole trip out West. It is a follow-up to 1950’s Broken Arrow with the star of that film, Jeff Chandler (again playing the Apache chief Cochise), staying […]

Nov, 24

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