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Drums Along the Mowhawk **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 6828

Director John Ford’s sprawling and unfocused but exciting and colourful 1939 film tells the story about a group of farmers in upstate New York caught napping by Indian attacks during the Revolutionary War. Claudette Colbert […]

Mar, 19

Two Flags West **** (1950, Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5679

Director Robert Wise’s stirring 1950 Western Two Flags West, based on a true incident that was also used in Major Dundee (1965), is splendidly acted, especially by Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler, Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, […]

Jun, 28

The Tall Men *** (1955, Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 5496

Director Raoul Walsh’s gutsy 1955 Western The Tall Men boasts excellent star power with the on-form cast of Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan and Cameron Mitchell, as well as liberal doses of action, romance […]

May, 25

Beau Geste **** (1939, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5413

‘The love of a man for a woman wanes and waxes like the moon… but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars, and endures like the word of the Prophet.’ Producer-director […]

May, 07

Beau Hunks *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 5410

‘Love comes: Mr Hardy is at last conscious of the grand passion – Mr Laurel isn’t even conscious of the Grand Canyon.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy enlist in the Foreign Legion when Ollie tries […]

May, 07

Northwest Passage **** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 4785

Spencer Tracy stars as Major Robert Rogers who intrepidly leads his Rangers through mountain, river and forest to put down Native Americans on the warpath in director King Vidor’s robust, way above average 1940 MGM historical […]

Dec, 11

Distant Drums ***½ (1951, Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 4784

In 1840s Florida, Army Captain Quincy Wyatt (Cooper) and Lieutenant Richard Tufts (Richard Webb) free prisoners from the clutches of the Seminole Indians, and fight their way back to safety through Indian country in director […]

Dec, 11

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