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Border River (1954, Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendáriz) – Classic Movie Review 11,025

‘They Had a Date With Destiny in the Powder-Keg of the West… ZONA LIBRE’ Director George Sherman’s 1954 Universal International Pictures Technicolor film Border River stars the admirable Joel McCrea, who is the best thing […]

Mar, 16

Son of a Gunfighter * (1965, Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook, Fernando Rey, María Granada) – Classic Movie Review 10,572

Director Paul Landres’s game but pedestrian 1966 Sixties Paella Western film Son of a Gunfighter [El Hijo del Pistolero] stars Russ Tamblyn as Johnny Ketchum, the son of notorious gunfighter James ‘Ace’ Ketchum. It is […]

Nov, 20

Kings of the Road [Im Lauf der Zeit] **** (1976, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer) – Classic Movie Review 8923

Wim Wenders’s ace 1976 road movie Kings of the Road [Im Lauf der Zeit] is about two men – film projector engineer Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and escapee from his family Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) […]

Sep, 20

The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31

Rio Rita **** (1929, Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Don Alvarado) – Classic Movie Review 5930

‘Ziegfeld’s fabulous all-talking, all-singing super screen spectacle.’ Rio Rita (1929) was the first smash hit for the RKO studio, then releasing films under the RKO Radio Pictures name. The studio spent heavily on this extravagant musical, […]

Aug, 17

The Border ***½ (1982, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 5275

Director Tony Richardson’s 1982 desperately dour and downbeat thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a bored and corrupt US Border Patrol agent called Charlie Smith, who is guarding the Mexican border. He operates on the fuzzy side […]

Apr, 10

Goal! *** (2005, Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 5025

Written by Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, director Danny Cannon’s soapy 2005 sports drama is total hokum but still shrewdly calculated and entertaining. Looking like a cross between the young Antonio […]

Feb, 13

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