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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 3174

When Clint Eastwood returned to the US from Europe, after starring in three Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns, he was directed in Hang ’em High by Ted Post, who was a vital factor in making Eastwood […]

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

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

Hour of the Gun **** (1967, James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 2082

Director John Sturges revisits the same material as his 1957 classic Western Gunfight at the OK Corral when he directs this more historically accurate, but comparatively little known 1967 sequel of sorts. This first-rate movie boasts outstanding performances […]

Jan, 17

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