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Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] * (1974, Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 10,309

Director Jan Troell’s 1974 romantic Western drama Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] tells the wispy, dull story of the love affair between spirited Scandinavian mail-order bride Hannah Lund (Liv Ullmann) and her grouchy Californian […]

Sep, 15

The Hired Hand **** (1971, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 8537

The overwhelming, unexpected success of Easy Rider allowed Peter Fonda the chance to direct himself, as Harry Collings and Warren Oates as Arch Harris, in the ‘meaningful’ 1971 Western The Hired Hand as drifters toying […]

Jun, 02

China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] *** (1978, Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 7858

Director Monte Hellman’s 1978 China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] is a very intriguing Spaghetti Western, with a great performance by Fabio Testi as Clayton Drumm, a condemned gunfighter who will win a pardon if […]

Nov, 30

Bullet for a Badman *** (1964, Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee) – Classic Movie Review 7715

Director R G Springsteen’s lusty 1964 B-movie Western Bullet for a Badman stars Audie Murphy as Logan Keliher, a gun-slinging lawman gone good and peaceful, who is forced for the sake of his wife and a […]

Oct, 28

Along Came Jones ** (1945, Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 7687

‘IT’S THE WEST AT ITS BEST! WITH ROOTIN’…TOOTIN’…SHOOTIN’ COOPER!’ Director Stuart Heisler’s 1945 romantic comedy Western Along Came Jones stars Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest and Dan Duryea. Along came Cooper as upright but […]

Oct, 21

The Lawless Breed *** (1953, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Dennis Weaver, Hugh O’Brian, Mary Castle, Michael Ansara, Forrest Lewis, Lee Van Cleef, Glenn Strange) – Classic Movie Review 7135

Rock Hudson convinces as a romanticised version of real-life American Old West freed killer, outlaw and folk icon John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 – August 19, 1895), who sets out to make enough money to begin a new life to […]

Jun, 08

Texas Lady ** (1955, Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, Gregory Walcott, James Bell, Horace McMahon) – Classic Movie Review 5478

‘WOMANLY WILES WERE HER WEAPONS!’ Director Tim Whelan’s 1955 Western has a surprise star in Claudette Colbert, who plays Prudence Webb, a determined woman who gambles with riverboat gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan) to pay […]

May, 19

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