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Ride the Man Down *** (1952, Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Rod Cameron, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton, James Bell, Chill Wills, J Carrol Naish and Jim Davis) – Classic Movie Review 13,723

The dispute over a dead man’s property escalates into a bloody range war in the 1952 American Western film Ride the Man Down starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Rod Cameron, and Forrest Tucker. ‘Luke Short’s Saturday […]

Sep, 16

Strange Way of Life [Extraña forma de vida] ** (2023, Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, George Steane, Manu Ríos) – Classic Movie Review 12,663

Pedro Almodóvar’s Western short film Strange Way of Life is over-produced and under-realised, with a lot of expertise put into something so simple and flimsy. But Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal go to it with […]

Oct, 06

Tex **** (1982, Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Ben Johnson, Emilio Estevez) – Classic Movie Review 9618

Director Tim Hunter’s little-seen 1982 Walt Disney Productions film Tex, adapted from one S E Hinton’s bestselling tales of troubled teenagers, is a rewarding, understated yarn about two brothers, Tex and Mason McCormick, in the […]

Apr, 08

China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] *** (1978, Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 7858

Director Monte Hellman’s 1978 China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] is a very intriguing Spaghetti Western, with a great performance by Fabio Testi as Clayton Drumm, a condemned gunfighter who will win a pardon if […]

Nov, 30

Go West *** (1925, Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers) – Classic Movie Review 7575

Buster Keaton’s amiable and deservedly well liked 1925 silent comedy Go West finds the great comic homeless and friendless. So he puts all his possessions on his bed and drags it westwards to California, where he […]

Sep, 14

South of St Louis *** (1949, Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Victor Jory, Bob Steele, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 7240

Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott and Victor Jory kick up some considerable sparks in director Ray Enright’s strongly cast, a notch or so above routine 1949 Western South of St Louis about the lives and loves […]

Jul, 01

Pardners ** (1956, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 7187

Pardners, the title of this 12th Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy is unfortunate, because their pardnership was close to breaking point by this time. Indeed, the night the film was released in cinemas, they […]

Jun, 18

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