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The Raid *** (1954, Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,447

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]

Oct, 22

Arizona *** (1940, Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 9891

Adventurer Peter Muncie (William Holden) collides with tough Tucson tomboy pioneer woman Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) and the sparks fly in director Wesley Ruggles’s entertaining 1940 vintage action Western film Arizona. It is long (as […]

Jun, 11

White Feather **** (1955, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund, Debra Paget, Eduard Franz, Noah Beery Jr, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 8794

Director Robert D Webb’s historical Western White Feather (1955) stars Robert Wagner as Josh Tanner, a youthful civilian surveyor for the army, who finds himself caught between greedy gold-diggers and the Cheyenne Indians who live on […]

Aug, 05

Custer of the West *** (1967, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Lawrence Tierney, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7520

Spectacular, brilliantly shot (in Technicolor by cinematographer Cecilio Paniagua) battle scenes highlight director Robert Siodmak’s adventurous 1967 international co-production Custer of the West, a thoughtful and intelligent biopic of George Armstrong Custer, the controversial US general, who […]

Aug, 31

The Hallelujah Trail *** (1965, Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Jim Hutton, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Pamela Tiffin) – Classic Movie Review 6523

Producer-director John Sturges’s good-looking, robust 1965 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart, who is assigned to protect a valuable shipment of whisky en route to the thirsty miners in Denver. Native Americans, the US […]

Jan, 05

Sergeants 3 ** (1962, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 4760

Director John Sturges’s easy-going, good-natured 1961 Western comedy adventure movie stars Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jnr and Joey Bishop, as the Rat Pack remake and send up Gunga Din (1939), transplanted […]

Dec, 09

Rio Grande ***** (1950, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jnr, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr, Chill Wills, J Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 2352

Director John Ford makes the 1950 closing episode in his US Cavalry trilogy third time lucky and essential old Hollywood viewing. John Wayne again stars, this time as a Cavalry officer dealing with the plundering […]

Apr, 03

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