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Chief Thundercloud plays Geronimo in writer-director Paul H Sloane’s tepid 1939 Paramount Western about three good guys tracking the bad guy Gillespie (Gene Lockhart) who is selling guns to the Native Americans. And, of course, Apache […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1941 Western adventure pairs the dashing Errol Flynn and the lovely Olvia de Havilland for the eighth and last time as the story of General George Armstrong Custer is rousingly told with […]
Producer-director John Ford is coming towards the end of the trail in his majestic 1964 final Western film Cheyenne Autumn, which gives a sympathetic fictionalized account of the true story of a tribe of Cheyenne […]
John Ford’s 1934 wartime adventure film tells a still stirring classic tale of a World War One British army patrol of a dozen soldiers lost in the Mesopotamian desert and facing constant sniper attacks from unseen […]
Steven Spielberg’s solidly crafted 2011 British-American war drama War Horse is a guaranteed heart-tugger, with a decent screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis adapting Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel set around World War One. […]
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 […]
Director John Ford’s 1960 Western reunites him with star Jeffrey Hunter, who relishes an excellent role as Lieutenant Tom Cantrell. It is the sterling story of a US Cavalry’s hero’s fight for justice. The young […]