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Writer-director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Young Billy Young is a handsomely produced Western with a grim-looking Robert Mitchum as a peace-loving, but dogged lawman, First Deputy Ben Kane, seeking his son’s killer. Kane takes a job […]
The success of their sleeper hit Ah Wilderness! (1935) prompted MGM to re-use many of the cast in A Family Affair (1937), the first in its Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric […]
‘Clarence Brown’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s great American drama’. Perhaps it is surprising that MGM should want to turn posh dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s one-off nostalgic comic play about a provincial small-town American family around 1900 […]
MGM’s boy star Mickey Rooney finally comes of age at 27 in ace director Rouben Mamoulian’s delightfully handsome and extravagant 1948 Technicolor musical rejig of Eugene O’Neill’s famed play Ah Wilderness! about a Danville, Connecticut, […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1949 true story comedy drama Come to the Stable stars Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as French nuns Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, who arrive and set out win the hearts and help of […]
Director Henry King’s 1958 revenge and redemption Western The Bravados stars Gregory Peck as grimly determined Jim Douglass, who sets out to find the escaped bad guys – four deadly in-laws – he thinks have […]
Director Robert Redford’s impeccably filmed 1988 saga The Milagro Beanfield War hones in on a battle in the American Southwest between New Mexican farmers and the bad guys who want to develop their land for […]