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Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]
Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch. […]
John Wayne stars as a hard-bitten Texas Ranger Captain in the rough and tough 1961 American CinemaScope Western film The Comancheros, directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz in his last movie. John Wayne stars as […]
Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to team up with English rose Susannah York for director Jack Smight’s breezy 1966 romantic caper comedy thriller film Kaleidoscope. Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to […]
Dick Powell is on top form as a gambling parlour wise-guy mixed up in murders, in Robert Rossen’s very fine 1947 whodunit crime film noir thriller Johnny O’Clock. Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1947 Columbia Pictures thriller […]
‘WOMANLY WILES WERE HER WEAPONS!’ Director Tim Whelan’s 1955 Western has a surprise star in Claudette Colbert, who plays Prudence Webb, a determined woman who gambles with riverboat gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan) to pay […]
Gregory Peck stars as a young writer who rescues a countess (Ava Gardner) from gambling but gets the disease himself as a compulsive gambler, in The Great Sinner (1949). Unfortunately director Robert Siodmak’s fascinating […]