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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

You Can’t Win ‘Em All ** (1970, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 8650

Unlikely co-stars Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson enjoy their roles and their repartee as joking ex-US Army mercenary sparring partners Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, hired by (Grégoire Aslan), in embattled Turkey in the civil […]

Jun, 28

Station West *** (1948, Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7259

Dick Powell is on good form in Station West (1948) in a rare Western outing for him as US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven, an officer who goes undercover in a Western town to expose […]

Jul, 06

The War Wagon *** (1967, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr, Keenan Wynn, Bruce Cabot, Gene Evans, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 6481

Played for laughs, director Burt Kennedy’s 1967 movie cracks along at a fine gallop thanks to the sharp screenplay from Clair Huffaker (who adapts his novel The Badman) and the snappy direction. John Wayne (as […]

Dec, 28

Johnny Angel **** (1945, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso) – Classic Movie Review 5255

Director Edwin L Marin’s excellent 1945 film noir crime thriller stars George Raft as Johnny Angel, a sea captain who solves his father’s murder, finds who hijacked and stole his dad’s boat cargo of gold […]

Apr, 05

Rawhide *** (1951, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Jack Elam, Dean Jagger, George Tobias, Edgar Buchanan, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 4869

Director Henry Hathaway’s unusually tense and claustrophobic 1951 Western adventure features an intelligent screenplay by Dudley Nichols, inventive direction and ingenious camerawork by cinematographer Milton R Krasner that makes good use of the mainly interior […]

Jan, 09

Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

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