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Director Richard Fleischer’s punchy, intelligent 1958 Western These Thousand Hills is pumped full of admirable acting, robust action, cute romance and thoughtful drama, even if it fails to live up to the manic intensity of Pulitzer-prize […]
Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1965 The Rounders is an appealingly relaxed, humorous-toned Western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda both on excellent form as Ben and Howdy, a fairly dim-seeming pair of aging present-day bronco busters who […]
The Marx Brothers go forth for director Edward Buzzell’s 1940 Go West, their fourth movie at MGM studios. Go West is a rickety cowboy comedy movie which sees their zaniness on remote control, but the […]
A heart-breakingly warm, empathetic people drama, about a head injured young rodeo cowboy and his horses, about a battle against the odds. The Rider (2017) is an incredibly warm, empathetic people drama, about a boy […]
Merle Oberon stars as politician’s daughter Mary Smith, a scatty, lonely socialite who masquerades as a maid and falls for lean, outspoken rodeo rider Stretch (Gary Cooper), unaware of her identity, in director H C Potter’s light-hearted, featherweight […]
James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara are attractive and appealing stars but they are largely wasted in director Andrew V McLaglen’s lethargic, sentimental 1966 Western that is as clean as a whistle, with smooth performances, a […]