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The Lawless Frontier ** (1934, John Wayne, Earl Dwire, Sheila Terry, Jack Rockwell, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7134

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Lawless Frontier is a brisk, pacy, short and intriguing Lone Star/ Monogram studios B-movie Western, in which a pre-A-list stardom John Wayne plays John Tobin, who sets out to […]

Jun, 08

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08

The Missing **** (2003, Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Eric Schweig) Classic Movie Review 5890

Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) and her estranged father Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones), raised by the Apache people, are reunited by a crisis when her teenage daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is abducted by Pesh-Chidin […]

Aug, 10

Many Rivers to Cross **½ (1955, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 4369

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker were not at their best in comedy, but they do show a surprisingly lively, nimble touch here as a reluctant Kentucky frontiersman called Bushrod Gentry (!) and Mary Cherne, the […]

Sep, 15

Cimarron **** (1931, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Edna May Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 2326

Director Wesley Ruggles’s creaky but still rewarding 1931 Western film Cimarron is a triple Oscar-winner for Best Picture, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay (Howard Estabrook) and Art Direction (Max Rée). It is remarkable as […]

Mar, 29

Dances with Wolves ***** (1990, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene) – Classic Movie Review 2056

Co-producer-director-star Kevin Costner comes up with a truly majestic epic Western in 1990 and wins seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Grown men have been known to weep at this […]

Jan, 08

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