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Tom Horn ***½ (1979, Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Peter Canon, Elisha Cook Jnr, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 3,529

The 1979 Western film Tom Horn is notable as Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie and his final Western. It tells the tale of the last days of real-life Wyoming cavalry scout and bounty hunter Tom Horn, […]

Apr, 05

Dillinger **** (1973, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, John P Ryan, John Martino, Roy Jenson) – Classic Movie Review 3241

Writer-director John Milius’s 1973 thriller for American International Pictures casts Warren Oates in his first starring role as America’s public enemy number one John Dillinger. Début director Milius’s gangster movie is tough, pulsating and uncompromising […]

Jan, 05

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167

Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]

Dec, 18

The Culpepper Cattle Co **** (1972, Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 2547

Director Dick Richards’s rousing 1972 Western stars the 17-year-old Gary Grimes as young farm-hand cowboy Ben Mockridge who buys a $4 pistol and talks tough trail boss Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) into hiring him […]

Jun, 01

Double Impact *** (1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 2128

Director Sheldon Lettich’s passably impactful 1991 action thriller provides Jean-Claude Van Dammes with twin roles, which proved so popular that he repeated the formula over and over. Van Damme plays twins separated on the death of their parents. […]

Jan, 29

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **½ (1997, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 1330

Director Clint Eastwood’s 1997 thriller stars Kevin Spacey, who impresses mightily as Jim Williams, an antiques dealer who shoots dead his employee Billy Hanson (Jude Law) and is on trial for murder. Williams is a self-made millionaire, art collector, […]

Jun, 15

Heaven’s Gate **** (1980, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 95

Directly supervised by director Michael Cimino, the 2013 Director’s Cut and restoration of the 1980 infamous western Heaven’s Gate proves a revelation. He’s removed the intermission card and music, and made some judicious scene trims, bringing it […]

Jul, 27

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