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Green Grass of Wyoming *** (1948, Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 3462

Based on the novel by Mary O’Hara, director Louis King’s colourful 1948 slice of Americana about two families who are rivals in trotting horse racing is cute and charming. The big white stallion Thunderhead causes problems for the […]

Mar, 10

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

The Big Country **** (1958, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 2574

Producer-director William Wyler’s big 1958 epic Western stars Gregory Peck as wealthy retired New England sea captain James McKay, who arrives in the Old West on the range to marry his spoiled fiancée Patricia Terrill […]

Jun, 09

El Dorado **** (1966, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edward Asner, Christopher George) – Classic Movie Review 2560

Howard Hawks directs John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in this big Western film El Dorado late in all their careers in 1966. The 58-year-old Duke stars as the once-ace gunman Cole Thornton with a paralysed […]

Jun, 06

Giant **** (1956, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 1080

George Stevens’s ambitious 1956 film Giant was a triumph for him, winning the Best Director Oscar. But it is most memorable for 24-year-old James Dean’s final role as bitter entrepreneur Jett Rink, set on destroying […]

Apr, 12

Hombre **** (1967, Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Barbara Rush, Frank Silvera, Martin Balsam, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 860

Director Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western is a tense, intelligent, suspenseful movie, only maybe a little bit too obviously message-strewn for its own good. It reunites the star, the director, the writers and cinematographer of the 1963 triumph […]

Mar, 02

Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691

With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]

Jan, 17

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