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Director Michael Curtiz’s archetypal action-packed 1939 Western pairs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland again for the fifth of their nine movies together. In his first Western, Flynn (who thought that he was miscast in […]
The legendary silent film icon Louise Brooks plays Beth Hoyt in her last film that teams her with the young John Wayne, as his familiar nice-guy cowboy character Stony Brooke, in director George Sherman’s routine, […]
Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]
Co-producer/ writer/ director Tom Gries’s intensely burning 1968 Western is excellent, with a quietly powerful story about Charlton Heston’s aging, saddle-sore cowboy Will Penny, who gets a job on a large cattle spread and finds […]
Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman had to learn not only her lines but also how to be a feisty cowgirl and perform the most gruelling stunts for co-writer/ director Baz Luhrmann’s enjoyable old-style Outback romantic epic, the […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s quirky, relaxed and appealing 1972 modern Western is one heck of a cult item. It is so rare a gem that it’s more or less totally forgotten. Why is that, exactly? Forgotten […]