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A Man Called Gannon *** (1968, Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West) – Classic Movie Review 7031

Tony Franciosa stars as a cowpoke drifter who takes a tenderfoot kid (Michael Sarrazin) under his wing and helps a widow rancher (Judi West) in a range war, in the 1968 Western A Man Called […]

May, 10

Cowboy *** (1958, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York, Richard Jaeckel, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6829

You don’t expect to find Jack Lemmon in a Western, but here he is in the entertaining and imaginative 1958 cowboy tale Cowboy, based on Frank Harris’s apocryphal autobiography My Reminiscences as a Cowboy On […]

Mar, 19

Flame of Barbary Coast ** (1945, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6745

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Feb, 27

Sunset **** (1988, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 6538

Writer-director Blake Edwards teasingly says at the end of his fanciful 1988 comedy crime, mystery thriller movie: ‘And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two.’ The story starts with the […]

Jan, 09

Abilene Town ** (1946, Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, Jack Lambert) – Classic Movie Review 6,439

Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming and Lloyd Bridges star in the 1946 American Western film Abilene Town, set in the Old West cattle town of Abilene, Kansas, in 1870. Director Edwin L Marin’s modest 1946 American Western film Abilene […]

Dec, 20

Two Mules for Sister Sara **** (1970, Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood) – Classic Movie Review 6170

Director Don Siegel’s minor but involving and entertaining 1970 comic Western is quirkily adapted by screen writer Albert Maltz from a story by Fifties cult director Budd Boetticher. It comes over as a slightly offbeat […]

Nov, 01

The Virginian *** (2000, Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Dennis Weaver, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 4881

Co-producer/ star Bill Pullman directs himself as rancher hero The Virginian in this stalwart, well-acted fifth filming of the famous classic Owen Wister Western yarn, adapted as a 2000 TV movie by writer Larry Gross. […]

Jan, 12

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