Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Mexican Revolution"

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Bandido! *** (1956, Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 10,297

Director Richard Fleischer’s handsome, action-filled 1916 Mexican revolutionary adventure film Bandido! (1956 ) stars Robert Mitchum as arms trader Wilson, who supplies weapons to rebel colonel José Escobar (Roland) and outsmarts rival gunrunner Kennedy (Zachary Scott). […]

Sep, 12

Wings of the Hawk *** (1953, Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz) – Classic Movie Review 7374

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 Wings of the Hawk is a good-quality standard Western from Universal Pictures, with the usual heroics set against a convincingly etched South American backdrop, with solid dialogue and strong bursts of action. […]

Jul, 30

A Bullet for the General **** [Quién sabe?] (1967, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 6199

‘When the bullet turns red… the General will be dead!’ Director Damiano Damiani’s riveting 1967 Italian adult Western with typical spaghetti violence was belatedly introduced to Britain in 1990, thanks to the BBC2 TV Moviedrome […]

Nov, 06

Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

A Fistful of Dynamite **** (1972, Rod Steiger, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 1367

Writer-director Sergio Leone’s splendidly and impressively over-the-top 1972 modern Western is set in Mexico in 1913 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Succeeding by excess, this nevertheless thoughtful and intelligent action spectacular turned out to be […]

Jun, 28

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