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Santa Fe ** (1951, Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M Thompson, John Archer, Roy Roberts, Warner Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 6703

Director Irving Pichel’s 1951 Columbia Technicolor Western stars Randolph Scott as Britt Canfield, who leads his three younger brothers out West in search of adventure in this run-of-the-mill fighting-family Western. The trio of brothers, Terry, Tom and Clint […]

Feb, 17

Carson City *** (1952, Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 6595

Director André de Toth’s 1952 Western Carson City stars Raymond Massey as its gentleman villain, Big Jack Davis, the wicked Virginian financier who tries to stop the tough hero, engineer Silent Jeff Kincaid (Scott) from building […]

Jan, 23

Night Passage *** (1957, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Brandon de Wilde, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5920

‘The Saga of the Brothers and the savagery of their blood feud!’ Director James Neilson’s 1957 Western Night Passage is robust, and occasionally invigorating, though in some respects obstinately ordinary. But it is strongly cast, […]

Aug, 15

The Desert Song *** (1943, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 5738

Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]

Jul, 09

The Claim *** (2000, Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson) – Classic Movie Review 5402

Director Michael Winterbottom’s ambitious, well-crafted, thoughtful 2000 Western is based on The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce tells the story about a wealthy man who reamins haunted two […]

May, 06

Union Pacific **** (1939, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Regis Toomey, Evelyn Keyes) – Classic Movie Review 5,204

Cecil B DeMille’s huge 1939 epic black and white Western film Union Pacific stars Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff and Robert Preston. It is set in 1862, when rival railroads are competing to get […]

Mar, 27

This Property Is Condemned ***½ (1966, Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Mary Badham, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson) – Classic Movie Review 5,044

Natalie Wood and Robert Redford star brightly in the 1966 dysfunctional family romantic drama film This Property Is Condemned, typical Tennessee Williams fare. Director Sydney Pollack 1966 dysfunctional family romantic drama is typical Tennessee Williams […]

Feb, 22

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