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Dodge City **** (1939, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, (Bruce Cabot, Victor Jory, Douglas Fowley) – Classic Movie Review 4725

Director Michael Curtiz’s archetypal action-packed 1939 Western pairs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland again for the fifth of their nine movies together. In his first Western, Flynn (who thought that he was miscast in […]

Nov, 30

Cahill US Marshal *** (1973, John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, Neville Brand, Clay O’Brien, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 4254

Gary Grimes’s mere six film credits include the 1973 American Technicolor Western film Cahill US Marshal, where he stars as Danny Cahill alongside John Wayne’s Marshal J D Cahill. American retired actor Gary Grimes’s mere six […]

Aug, 28

Last Train from Gun Hill **** (1959, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brian G Hutton, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 3,409

The brilliant 1959 Western film Last Train from Gun Hill comes from the star, director and producer of Gunfight at the OK Corral. Kirk Douglas stars as Marshal Matt Morgan, determined to bring his wife’s […]

Feb, 25

Hang ’em High **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, James MacArthur, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson, L Q Jones, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale Jr, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3,174

Clint Eastwood becomes a US Marshal to track down and kill the nine vigilantes who lynched him and left him to die. in the moody, exciting and cynical 1968 Western movie Hang ’em High. When […]

Dec, 20

True Grit **** (1969, John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 3170

Director Henry Hathaway’s lumbering but loved old-style 1969 Western True Grit stars John Wayne in one of his most iconic performances for which he won his only Best Actor Oscar as the fat, old, drunken […]

Dec, 19

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

The Shootist ***** (1976, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 2578

Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]

Jun, 10

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