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Despite an interesting set-up and the strong efforts of the very good cast, director Arnold Laven’s 1967 Rough Night in Jericho is a tediously unsurprising Western that recycles the tired old stereotypes yet again, with […]
Little-known director Thomas Carr’s well-crafted 1957 Western The Tall Stranger stars Joel McCrea as ex-Yankee officer Ned Bannon, who is shot half dead by rustlers, but is saved by an intrepid wagon train of former Confederate settlers on their […]
Randolph Scott stars in the exceptional 1959 Western film Ride Lonesome as a bounty hunter who escorts a killer (James Best) to stand trial for murder, with the killer’s brother (Lee Van Cleef) in pursuit. […]
John Wayne is on fine form and so is Ella Raines in director Edwin L Marin’s bouncy, well-written and entertaining compact little 1944 Western with a straightforward thriller plot about a murdered ranch owner, the […]
The 1966 comedy Western film Texas Across the River is a passable old-style entertainment, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth and Joey Bishop. Director Michael Gordon’s 1966 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor and Techniscope American comedy Western film Texas Across the River is […]
Director Harald Zwart’s 2003 teen comedy is a pleasant vehicle for TV’s Malcolm in the Middle’s Frankie Muniz , who stars as a spy kid CIA agent hired by a slinky sexpot (Angie Harmon) to […]
In one of their finest Westerns, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star together as marshal Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday for director John Sturges’s 1957 classic Gunfight at the OK Corral. It certainly deserves […]