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Acquasanta Joe ** (1971, Lincoln Tate, Ty Hardin, Richard Harrison, Silvia Monelli) – Classic Movie Review 10,129

Director Mario Gariazzo’s typically violent, though slightly below-average 1971 spaghetti Western film Acquasanta Joe [Holy Water Joe] stars Lincoln Tate as bounty hunter Acquanasta Joe who goes after the gang of ex-civil war soldier outlaws, led […]

Aug, 04

The Valdez Horses [Valdez, il mezzosangue] [Chino] *** (1973, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 7514

Screen tough-guy Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland star in director John Sturges’s unusual, entertaining 1973 Spanish-shot Spaghetti Western about a loner mixed-race Indian American horse breeder rancher called Chino Valdez (Bronson) who defends his horse […]

Aug, 30

The Lucky Texan ** (1934, John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Lloyd Whitlock, Eddie Parker, Earl Dwire) – Classic Movie Review 7170

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1933 The Lucky Texan stars John Wayne as young Texan Jerry Mason, who strikes gold with his miner sidekick Jake ‘Grandy’  Benson (George ‘Gabby’ Hayes). Then they make the mistake of […]

Jun, 15

Westward Ho ** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn, Jr, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7153

Westward Ho (1935) is John Wayne’s first film for Republic Pictures and it is also the studio’s first production. It was a hit and hugely profitable. It cost only $35,000, or possibly only $17,000 (depending on the […]

Jun, 11

The Dawn Rider *** (1935, John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7130

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1935 The Dawn Rider is another early John Wayne low-budget B-movie Western with a then lanky young John playing John Mason out for revenge when the bad guys kill his loving father […]

Jun, 07

Riders of Destiny *** (1933, John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al St John) – Classic Movie Review 7128

The 26-year-old John Wayne plays ‘Singin’ Sandy’ Saunders (but dubbed, with the singing voice courtesy of Smith Ballew), a singing undercover US Government agent who battles against stagecoach robbing villains, and in particular bad guy James […]

Jun, 07

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

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