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Wagonmaster **** (1950, Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr, Ward Bond, Jane Darwell) – Classic Movie Review 2353
Director John Ford prefers taking care of atmosphere, acting and moral issues to developing plot in his striking and engaging 1950 movie. Ford offers a beautifully poetic treatment of a traditional, much travelled Western situation – the perilous […]
Rio Grande ***** (1950, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jnr, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr, Chill Wills, J Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 2352
Director John Ford makes the 1950 closing episode in his US Cavalry trilogy third time lucky and essential old Hollywood viewing. John Wayne again stars, this time as a Cavalry officer dealing with the plundering […]
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ***** (1949, John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar,Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 2348
Director John Ford is working at top level here in 1949 in this thrilling central episode of his US Cavalry trilogy with John Wayne, started with Fort Apache in 1948. Cinematographer Winton C Hoch won […]
The Last Picture Show ***** (1971, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson, Sam Bottoms, Eileen Brennan, Randy Quaid, Clu Gulager) – Classic Movie Review 2,284
Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie triumph The Last Picture Show is an outstanding adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenager (Timothy Bottoms)’s coming of age in the 1950s. Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie […]
Mighty Joe Young *** (1949, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 1745
In director Ernest B Schoedsack and producer Merian C Cooper’s 1949 fantasy adventure, Mighty Joe Young the gorilla is snatched from the African jungle to work in a Hollywood nightclub, holding up a piano. At […]
One-Eyed Jacks ***** (1961, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 1678
Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]
Angels in the Outfield *** (1994, Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – Classic Movie Review 1464
Director William Dear’s 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield is an old-fashioned family comedy drama from Walt Disney, with grumpy old coach George Knox (Danny Glover) supposedly gaining angelic assistance from Al the Boss Angel (Christopher […]