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Director Stuart Gilmore’s 1946 Paramount movie is the fourth filming of the famous Owen Wister Western yarn. It lacks some bite in this handling, and Joel McCrea as rancher hero The Virginian and Brian Donlevy […]
An archetypal Western tale about a posse hanging a ranch foreman’s buddy is dusted off as Gary Cooper’s first sound film, which sent him to the top in Hollywood, there to stay for 30 years. […]
The 1965 musical film Tickle Me stars Elvis Presley as a singing rodeo rider cowboy working as a stable boy on Julie Adams’s girly Arizona health farm dude ranch. Director Norman Taurog’s 1965 Elvis Presley […]
The 1966 comedy Western film Texas Across the River is a passable old-style entertainment, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth and Joey Bishop. Director Michael Gordon’s 1966 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor and Techniscope American comedy Western film Texas Across the River is […]
William A Fraker makes his directorial debut with the tremendous 1970 elegiac Western film Monte Walsh, blessed with performances of high stature by Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. American cinematographer William A Fraker makes his directorial […]
George Cosmatos’s 1993 film Tombstone stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and is written by Kevin Jarre, the original director, fired early in production. The film was a hit […]
Viggo Mortensen stars in his first post-Lord of the Rings movie as 1890s real-life Pony Express cowboy courier Frank T Hopkins, who takes his mustang Hidaldo to the Arabian Desert to compete in a big-prize […]