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Stay Away, Joe * (1968, Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 9990

Director Peter Tewkesbury’s 1968 romantic musical comedy drama Stay Away, Joe stars Elvis Presley as a mixed race American Indian rodeo champ called Joe Lightcloud who helps out back home on his family’s traditional Native […]

Jul, 02

When the Legends Die **** (1972, Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest, Luana Anders) – Classic Movie Review 9,801

A remarkable, outstanding performance by Richard Widmark heads producer-director Stuart Millar’s elegant, attractively low-key, laid-back 1972 contemporary Western film When the Legends Die. Robert Dozier’s screenplay is based on the novel by Hal Boland about […]

May, 21

The Last Hunt *** (1956, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Debra Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 8973

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s hard-hitting Western saga 1956 The Last Hunt stars Robert Taylor, cast effectively against type, as the sadistic buffalo-killer Charles ‘Charley’ Gilson in 1883 South Dakota. Stewart Granger plays his conscience-riddled buffalo hunter partner […]

Oct, 10

In Old Oklahoma [War of the Wildcats] *** (1943, John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Sidney Blackmer) – Classic Movie Review 8540

‘Wildcat Men and their Wildcat Women!’ Director Albert S Rogell’s 1943 romance Western In Old Oklahoma [War of the Wildcats] stars John Wayne as nice cowboy Dan Somers, who takes on Albert Dekker’s bad oil tycoon […]

Jun, 03

Billy Jack *** (1971, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat) – Classic Movie Review 8324

Tom Laughlin writes, directs and stars in this once radical and significant, but now very dated and rather hollow-seeming 1971 hippie-era anti establishment drama about a half Native American Vietnam vet wandering round Texas harassed […]

Apr, 01

Wind River **** (2017, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olson, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene) – Movie Review

Ironically, though it was a sweaty evening at the cinema with the aircon not working, this 2017 crime drama, mystery movie is ultra-chilly in every way. Shot in snowy landscapes, it is very cold, bleak, intense and […]

Sep, 09

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