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The Westerner **** (1940, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Dana Andrews, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 7154

Director William Wyler’s 1940 The Westerner stars Gary Cooper as moody, heroic cow-hand Cole Harden, who battles against dreaded hanging judge Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) in an epic classic Western managed outstandingly well by director […]

Jun, 11

Abilene Town ** (1946, Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, Jack Lambert) – Classic Movie Review 6,439

Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming and Lloyd Bridges star in the 1946 American Western film Abilene Town, set in the Old West cattle town of Abilene, Kansas, in 1870. Director Edwin L Marin’s modest 1946 American Western film Abilene […]

Dec, 20

Untamed Frontier *** (1952, Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Minor Watson, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 4867

Director Hugo Fregonese’s tough 1952 movie is a strongly cast, well-done Western. The familiar sounding story centres on a ruthless cattle baron called Matt Denbow (Minor Watson), who upsets local settlers by refusing to allow […]

Jan, 08

The Sea of Grass *** (1947, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Walker) – Classic Movie Review 3858

Based on Conrad Richter’s 1936 novel, director Elia Kazan’s 1947 black and white Western The Sea of Grass represents an effective change of pace for the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn star team. But years later Kazan […]

Jun, 13

Summer Stock **** (1950, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 2513

Director Charles Walters’s 1950 Technicolor musical Summer Stock is the third and last pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Poignantly, and sadly, it is the troubled Garland’s final movie for her studio MGM. She […]

May, 23

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