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Director Raoul Walsh’s roistering and raunchy 1956 Western has a tailor-made role for an agreeably ageing Clark Gable (now no longer with his long-term studio MGM) as the King (his movie nickname too as the […]
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 […]
Director Randal Kleiser’s very popular, smoothly efficient and extremely good-looking 1991 Disney film version of the old Jack London story stars the young Ethan Hawke, who gives an appealing performance as young gold hunter Jack […]
‘Matt Helm’s final assignment is a blast!’ Don’t you just love taglines that review the film? Why have film critics when you can have ad men? Director Phil Karlson’s 1968 spy caper adventure movie The […]
I don’t suppose you would expect subtlety, laughs or a nice, gentle time from a movie called Let the Corpses Tan. Well, you are certainly not going to get any of that kind of stuff. […]
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Japanese adventure is one of Kurosawa’s deservedly admired, classic Samurai movies, and a world cinema landmark. Toshirô Mifune stars as a fearlesss Samurai warrior, General Rokurota Makabe, who during the […]
The two clashing 1899 Alaska adventurers fight for gold and a gal for the fifth time in director Jesse Hibbs’s routine and lesser but still enjoyable 1955 film version of the novel by Rex Beach. […]