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The Redhead and the Cowboy ** (1951, Glenn Ford, Edmond O’Brien, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 10,550

Back at Paramount Pictures, Rhonda Fleming plays the title role of The Redhead in director Leslie Fenton’s mildly enjoyable Western, The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), also with Glenn Ford and Edmond O’Brien. Ford stars […]

Nov, 16

The Raid *** (1954, Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,447

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]

Oct, 22

Judge Priest **** (1934, Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B Walthall, David Landau) – Classic Movie Review 10,126

Director John Ford’s 1934 film Judge Priest stars Will Rogers as 1890s widowed small-town Kentucky Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, who engages his laid-back common-sense and humanity to dispense justice generally, and in particular […]

Aug, 03

One Foot in Hell *** (1960, Alan Ladd, Dan O’Herlihy, Don Murray, Dolores Michaels) – Classic Movie Review 10,101

Director James B Clark’s odd, interesting, often quite compelling 1960 revenge Western film One Foot in Hell stars a well-cast Alan Ladd as the bitter Mitch Barrett taking it out on the Arizona small town […]

Jul, 29

Alvarez Kelly *** (1966, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 9073

Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]

Nov, 16

Journey to Shiloh *** (1968, James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud, Paul Petersen, Michael Burns, Jan-Michael Vincent, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 8615

Journey to Shiloh was made by Universal Pictures, looking for Sixties youth appeal, but they threw it away as a support feature in May 1968. Yet, with its iconic actors, it retains its appeal, and […]

Jun, 20

The Horse Soldiers *** (1959, John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6771

Starting with The Horse Soldiers (1959), six of John Ford’s last eight completed movies were Westerns, including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. But before that, he made only one Western from 1950 to 1959, The Searchers (1956). Director […]

Mar, 06

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