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Waterhole No 3 [Waterhole Three] *** (1967, James Coburn, Carroll O’Connor, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins, Timothy Carey, Bruce Dern, James Whitmore) Classic Movie Review 10,376

Director William A Graham’s entertaining, amoral 1967 comedy Western film Waterhole No 3 is set in an Arizona town called Integrity. It is lit up with an amusing star performance by James Coburn as Lewton […]

Oct, 02

The Pharmacist **** (1933, W C Fields, Marjorie Kane, Elise Cavanna, Grady Sutton, Lorena Carr) – Classic Movie Review 9794

The Pharmacist is a quirky, funny 1933 American pre-Code 20-minute comedy film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring W C Fields as horribly henpecked pharmacist Mr Dilweg, who tries to deal with his comedically over-demanding […]

May, 20

Poppy **** (1936, W C Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Lynne Overman, Catherine Doucet) – Classic Movie Review 9788

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1936 comedy Poppy finds W C Fields on hilarious form repeating his 1925 filming of his stage hit Sally of the Sawdust as carnival medicine salesman conman Professor Eustace McGargle. He […]

May, 18

Showdown at Abilene ** (1956, Jock Mahoney, Lyle Bettger, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9696

The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]

May, 01

The Halliday Brand *** (1957, Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 9604

‘Their violence seared the West like a branding iron!’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1956 The Halliday Brand is a rousing flashback Western making the most of a somewhat clichéd script about a rancher father, Big […]

Apr, 06

The Hard Man ** (1957, Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 9433

‘The Hard Man Will EXCITE You!’: The 1957 Technicolor Western film The Hard Man stars Guy Madison as Steve Burden, who takes the job of Deputy in El Solito, controlled by a villainous cattle baron […]

Feb, 27

The Old Fashioned Way **** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen, Nora Cecil) – Classic Movie Review 9333

Director William Beaudine’s agreeably raucous and extremely funny 1934 W C Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way sees the star at his grouchiest as The Great McGonigle, the blustery actor-manager head of a group of […]

Feb, 01

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