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Posts Tagged "Mexico"

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I Dream in Another Language **** (2017, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez) – Classic Movie Review 12,618

The 2017 Mexican drama film I Dream in Another Language [Sueño en otro idioma] is a tragic love story, beautifully handled and moving. A linguist finds a language’s last two speakers fell out as young […]

Aug, 21

The Bad Man [Two-Gun Cupid] ** (1941, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Tom Conway) – Classic Movie Review 11,627

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1941 The Bad Man [Two-Gun Cupid] is a Western with a dash of comedy and romance about the bandit Lopez, an eccentric Mexico caballero (Wallace Beery, the Two-Gun Cupid of the amusing […]

Oct, 04

One Way Street *** (1950, James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 11,237

The solid and satisfying 1950 film noir crime drama One Way Street stars James Mason as Dr Frank Matson, who runs off to Mexico with his mob boss patient (Dan Duryea)’s stash of cash and […]

May, 24

Quantez ** (1957, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 10,919

‘THEY RODE TO QUANTEZ TOWN… half-way to freedom but all the way to Hell!’ Universal International Pictures’ 1957 film Quantez is a stodgy but passable Western about criminals on the lam ducking into a Mexican […]

Feb, 15

Bandolero! *** (1968, James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 10,298

The cast suggests a lighthearted Western, but director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1968 Bandolero! is actually a showcase for tough fisticuffs and violent shootouts, as well as a showcase for its stars James Stewart, Dean Martin, […]

Sep, 12

The Texan *** (1930, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A Marcus) – Classic Movie Review 10,265

Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]

Sep, 05

Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] *** (1996, Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Rosa Furman, Sherlyn González) – Classic Movie Review 9983

Beware director Arturo Ripstein’s fascinating, dark and gruesome 1996 black comedy thriller Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] about the balding gigolo Nicolas Estrella (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and the overweight nurse Coral Fabre (opera singer Regina Orozco) […]

Jun, 30

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