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Only the Brave *** (2017, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges) – Movie Review

Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, the head of the Prescott, Arizona, Fire Department who gets approval from the Mayor to organise a Hotshot front line forest fire fighting crew in 2007. He recruits and […]

Nov, 17

Branded *** (1950, Alan Ladd, Charles Bickford, Mona Freeman, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen, Selena Royle) – Classic Movie Review 5418

Director Rudolph Maté’s robust 1950 Western stars Alan Ladd, who plays a cool crook baddie called Choya, posing as cattle baron Charles Bickford’s and his wife Selena Royle’s long-vanished son, abducted years ago to swindle […]

May, 07

Edge of Eternity *** (1959, Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Edgar Buchanan, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5258

Director Don Siegel’s 1959 adventure stars Cornel Wilde as Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin, who is hunting for the killer of the boss of a gold mine whose ingots went missing, part of a sequence […]

Apr, 05

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4817

This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller is producer Robert Aldrich’s third Grand Guignol horror film after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). However, this time there is no […]

Dec, 29

The Wild Bunch ***** (1969, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4788

‘ ‘If they move,’ orders William Holden’s Pike Bishop, ‘kill ’em.’ Director Sam Peckinpah’s crucial 1969 Western The Wild Bunch, famed for, or infamous for, depending on your viewpoint, its poetic bloodiness and death in […]

Dec, 12

Indian Uprising ** (1952, George Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid) – Classic Movie Review 3548

Forties Hollywood leading lady Audrey Long plays Norma Clemson in her final film in 1952, after which she retired at the age of 30, having made around 30 low-budget Westerns and film noir thrillers, including […]

Apr, 09

Junior Bonner ***** (1972, Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 3532

Director Sam Peckinpah’s quiet 1972 Western masterpiece tells the beautiful, elegaic tale of a middle-aged rodeo star who finds a disturbed family clashing with property developers when he goes back to his Arizona home for […]

Apr, 05

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