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Director Henry Levin’s 1953 Twentieth Century Fox comedy musical romance The Farmer Takes a Wife is a plushly produced but uninvolving musical rehash of the sweet 1935 original The Farmer Takes a Wife. It is […]
Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 2001 TV movie The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is a superior, pacy, gripping adventure about a mom, Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), and her three children heading West after the death of […]
Director William Wellman’s 1951 Western film Westward the Women stars a dour-seeming Robert Taylor as the man responsible for conducting a wagon-train of ladies (Denise Darcel, Marilyn Erskine, Hope Emerson, Lenore Lonergan and Julie Bishop) […]
John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix get rewarding roles as killer brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters, who hunt down gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed) and his surprise ally John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was […]
Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]
Director Stanley Donen’s wonderfully exuberant and high-spirited 1954 MGM dance musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers stars Jane Powell and Howard Keel, and tells the story about the seven Pontipee brothers on a backwoods farm […]
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