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Producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1946 film Centennial Summer is based on a novel by Albert E Idell, and stars Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, William Eythe, Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett, and Dorothy Gish. Centennial Summer […]
Director Leslie Fenton’s 1949 Western film Streets of Laredo is a routine but sturdy remake of The Texas Rangers (1936), this time starring William Holden and Macdonald Carey as old outlaw buddies Jim Dawkins (Holden) […]
Director Robert D Webb’s historical Western White Feather (1955) stars Robert Wagner as Josh Tanner, a youthful civilian surveyor for the army, who finds himself caught between greedy gold-diggers and the Cheyenne Indians who live on […]
Director David MacDonald’s 1949 adventure film Diamond City is a dull and predictable tale of the good guys versus the bad guys in a South African diamond mine. Diamond City gives the British an interesting […]
In 1955, screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote a screenplay entitled 7 Men from Now to be filmed by John Wayne’s Batjac Productions with Wayne as star and Budd Boetticher as director. But Wayne was committed to John Ford’s The Searchers and suggested his Republican friend Scott instead after Gary Cooper turned […]
Though by no means an outrage, director Martin Ritt’s 1964 Western is a misguided attempt to relocate Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese classic Rashomon to the American Southwest in the 1870s, with four people telling their widely […]
Martin Scorsese’s reverent, faithful film of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence follows the fortunes of society lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder) but drawn to Countess Olenska […]