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Dodge City **** (1939, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, (Bruce Cabot, Victor Jory, Douglas Fowley) – Classic Movie Review 4725

Director Michael Curtiz’s archetypal action-packed 1939 Western pairs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland again for the fifth of their nine movies together. In his first Western, Flynn (who thought that he was miscast in […]

Nov, 30

Overland Stage Raiders **½ (1938, John Wayne, Louise Brooks, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune) – Classic Movie Review 4672

The legendary silent film icon Louise Brooks plays Beth Hoyt in her last film that teams her with the young John Wayne, as his familiar nice-guy cowboy character Stony Brooke, in director George Sherman’s routine, […]

Nov, 20

The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20

Will Penny **** (1968, Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, William Schallert, Slim Pickens, G D Spradlin) – Classic Movie Review 4535

Co-producer/ writer/ director Tom Gries’s intensely burning 1968 Western is excellent, with a quietly powerful story about Charlton Heston’s aging, saddle-sore cowboy Will Penny, who gets a job on a large cattle spread and finds […]

Oct, 26

Australia *** (2008, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Ray Barrett, Arthur Dignam, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 4526

Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman had to learn not only her lines but also how to be a feisty cowgirl and perform the most gruelling stunts for co-writer/ director Baz Luhrmann’s enjoyable old-style Outback romantic epic, the […]

Oct, 24

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

Pocket Money **** (1972, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 2951

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s quirky, relaxed and appealing 1972 modern Western is one heck of a cult item. It is so rare a gem that it’s more or less totally forgotten. Why is that, exactly? Forgotten […]

Oct, 04

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