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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 […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s unusually tense and claustrophobic 1951 Western adventure features an intelligent screenplay by Dudley Nichols, inventive direction and ingenious camerawork by cinematographer Milton R Krasner that makes good use of the mainly interior […]
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in director James Mangold’s strong, gritty, film noir-style 2007 Western, a commendable remake of the 1957 3:10 to Yuma, based on Elmore Leonard’s short story . A well-cast Crowe and Bale give […]
Delmer Daves’s 1957 classic film 3:10 to Yuma is a suspenseful, masterly Fifties Western of the High Noon school, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin ideally cast. Based on a 1953 short story by Elmore […]
Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance, who prevents a killer called Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) from escaping out of […]
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 […]
‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and the double Oscar-winning 1939 masterwork Stagecoach is his most famous. ‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and the […]