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My Darling Clementine ***** (1946, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature) – Classic Movie Review 2081

Director John Ford’s splendid 1946 back and white Western tells a fanciful version of the tale of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Career-best portrayals by Henry Fonda as a thin-lipped, tough, resolute lawman Wyatt […]

Jan, 17

The Grapes of Wrath ***** (1940, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 1825

Best Director John Ford and Best Supporting Actress Jane Darwell both won essential Oscars for this stupendous 1940 film of the John Steinbeck story about the odyssey of the Joads. They are a poor Oklahoma farming […]

Nov, 10

The Falcon Takes Over **** (1942, George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Helen Gilbert, Edward Gargan, Ward Bond, Hans Conried, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 741

George Sanders stars in 1942 in a highspot in Michael Arlen’s débonair detective Falcon series, unexpectedly based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, and the first film of the great writer’s classic hardboiled crime thriller […]

Jan, 24

The Maltese Falcon ***** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 722

John Huston’s 1941 classic The Maltese Falcon is a movie masterpiece of film noir, lovingly derived from Dashiell Hammett’s renowned detective thriller novel. Humphrey Bogart relishes one of his most iconic roles as the gumshoe […]

Jan, 19

The Searchers ***** (1956, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 349

With a fine screenplay by Frank S Nugent based on the factually based novel by Alan Le May, this 1956 all-time great John Ford movie The Searchers is simply one of the best Westerns ever. […]

Nov, 02

The Quiet Man ***** (1952, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara) – Classic Movie Review 62

Winning his all-time-record fourth (and last) Best Director Oscar, director John Ford is totally in his element in this delightful, boisterous, good-natured 1952 movie. A double Academy Award winner, it is sparkily written Frank S […]

Jul, 18

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