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Branded *** (1950, Alan Ladd, Charles Bickford, Mona Freeman, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen, Selena Royle) – Classic Movie Review 5418

Director Rudolph Maté’s robust 1950 Western stars Alan Ladd, who plays a cool crook baddie called Choya, posing as cattle baron Charles Bickford’s and his wife Selena Royle’s long-vanished son, abducted years ago to swindle […]

May, 07

Dirty Dingus Magee *** (1970, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Jack Elam, Lois Nettleton, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Harry Carey Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 4865

Western expert producer-director Burt Kennedy’s roistering, boisterous 1970 B-movie-style Western finds its star Frank Sinatra enjoying himself in an unusually very broad performance as a dopey outlaw. That would be Dirty Dingus Billy Magee. With good performers […]

Jan, 08

Fury at Showdown *** (1957, John Derek, John Smith, Carolyn Craig, Nick Adams, Gage Clarke, Robert Griffin) – Classic Movie Review 4176

Handsome young American stars of the day, John Derek, John Smith and Nick Adams, are cast as Brock Mitchell, his brother Tracy, and Mikey Sutton in director Gerd Oswald’s surprisingly expert little 1957 support Western. […]

Aug, 15

Rancho Notorious **** (1952, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2598

Director Fritz Lang’s splendidly baroque and brooding 1952 Western tale of frontier revenge is lit up by a mesmerising, breathtakingly camp star turn from a smouldering Marlene Dietrich (still looking stunning at 50). She plays Altar […]

Jun, 14

The Gunfighter **** (1950, Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Richard Jaeckel, Skip Homeier, B G Norman, Karl Malden, Jean Parker, Verna Felton, Alan Hale Jr, Ellen Corby, Mae Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 2594

‘His only friend was his gun… His only refuge – a woman’s heart!’ Director Henry King’s superior 1950 Western stars Gregory Peck, who rivets the attention cast against type as a worn-out reformed gunfighter called […]

Jun, 14

Rio Bravo ***** (1959, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 2540

Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance, who prevents a killer called Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) from escaping out of […]

May, 30

Unforgiven ***** (1992, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2397

Star-producer-director Clint Eastwood’s dark, violent and complex 1992 Western is his first after a long gap since Pale Rider in 1985. Unforgiven is now hailed as one of the genre’s greatest. It triumphed as only […]

Apr, 16

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