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Yellowstone Kelly *** (1959, Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton, Claude Akins, Rhodes Reason, Warren Oates, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8,326

A slew of popular Warner Bros TV stars enlivens Gordon Douglas’s competent, highly professional 1959 Western film Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker from Cheyenne, Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip and John Russell from Lawman.  […]

Apr, 02

Apache Woman *** (1955, Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 7731

Cult director Roger Corman’s low-budget ($80,000) second feature Apache Woman (1955) is an interesting and capable if fairly tame (by his standards) Western, notable for his attempt to mix action with romance, an anti-racial prejudice […]

Oct, 31

Duel at Diablo *** (1966, James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Bill Travers, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 6456

Director Ralph Nelson’s strong 1966 movie is basically an old-fashioned Fifties-style action Western with some Sixties trappings, such as an African American star, added violence, and a Neal Hefti score, none of which you’d have […]

Dec, 23

Taza, Son of Cochise *** (1954, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 6304

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 3D Western is his sole trip out West. It is a follow-up to 1950’s Broken Arrow with the star of that film, Jeff Chandler (again playing the Apache chief Cochise), staying […]

Nov, 24

Major Dundee **** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 5680

Charlton Heston gives a bravura turn as the tormented cavalry Major Amos Dundee and Richard Harris excels too as Captain Benjamin Tyreen, a dashing Confederate rebel, in director Sam Peckinpah’s troubled 1965 epic Western about […]

Jun, 28

Geronimo: An American Legend ****½ (1993, Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon) – Classic Movie Review 5581

In the mid-1880s, the US Army tries for a final push to quash the Native Americans in this wonderfully made, shamefully forgotten Western, earnestly written by John Milius and Larry Gross, from a story by […]

Jun, 11

Geronimo *** (1962, Chuck Connors, Adam West, Kamala Devi, Pat Conway, Lawrence Dobkin) – Classic Movie Review 5580

Producer-director Arnold Laven’s 1962 Technicolor movie stars Chuck Connors as Apache warrior Geronimo in this caring, pro-Native American Western about the Indian Chief trying to fight back against the US soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Lawrence […]

Jun, 11

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