Derek Winnert

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The Violent Men *** (1955, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9832

The 1955 Western film The Violent Men stars Glenn Ford as John Parrish, a Union officer who returns from the Civil War a pacifist, but is stirred into violent action by ruthless Lew Wilkison (Edward […]

May, 27

The Tall Stranger *** (1957, Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 7274

Little-known director Thomas Carr’s well-crafted 1957 Western The Tall Stranger stars Joel McCrea as ex-Yankee officer Ned Bannon, who is shot half dead by rustlers, but is saved by an intrepid wagon train of former Confederate settlers on their […]

Jul, 10

Station West *** (1948, Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7259

Dick Powell is on good form in Station West (1948) in a rare Western outing for him as US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven, an officer who goes undercover in a Western town to expose […]

Jul, 06

West of the Divide ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7176

West of the Divide (1934) – A young John Wayne stars in a pacy Lone Star B Western.  John Wayne stars in writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 Lone Star/ Monogram Pictures black and white Western West […]

Jun, 16

Yojimbo ***** (1961, Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai) – Classic Movie Review 4924

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Japanese adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as crafty wandering samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake, who hires himself out as a professional killer and bodyguard (yojimbo in Japanese) to both sides of gangsters in a […]

Jan, 23

A Fistful of Dollars [Per un pugno di dollari] ***** (1964, Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch) – Classic Movie Review 1366

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – Per un pugno di dollari in Italian – is the first of writer-director Sergio Leone’s much admired, incredibly popular, now cult classic series of spaghetti Westerns. It was eventually a huge […]

Jun, 28

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] ***** (1966, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef) – Classic Movie Review 157

Wearing his same (uncleaned) poncho, Clint Eastwood again stars in the 1966 spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] as the drifter and gunslinger the Man […]

Aug, 13

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