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No Name on the Bullet *** (1959, Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans) – Classic Movie Review 7479

Director Jack Arnold’s 1959 Western No Name on the Bullet stars World War Two’s most decorated soldier Audie Murphy as John Gant, the strong silent type of mystery killer. Gant rides into town to shoot […]

Aug, 21

3 Bad Men **** (1926, George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen) – Classic Movie Review 7465

Director John Ford’s 1926 Western 3 Bad Men is an enduring, great Ford silent movie, in which the star trio of outlaw gunslingers turn kindly to help a girl whose father has been killed by horse […]

Aug, 18

New Frontier [Frontier Horizon] ** (1939, John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7163

John Wayne stars as Stoney Brooke in George Sherman’s modest, predictable, but pretty robust 1939 Republic Pictures black and white support Western, in which The Three Mesquiteers help a village settlement against bad guys out […]

Jun, 13

Trail Street *** (1947, Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 7,049

RKO’s traditional, unassuming 1947 Western film Trail Street is lifted by a worthy cast and a rousing climactic battle between the cattlemen and the farmers. Randolph Scott is a sterling movie cowboy as US marshal […]

May, 14

Murderers’ Row ** (1966, Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6374

There is some mild Sixties spy spoof fun to be had from director Henry Levin’s silly, vacuous second Matt Helm 1966 spy comedy-thriller caper (following the hit The Silencers). The splendidly insouciant, carefree, unconcerned and light-hearted Dean Martin […]

Dec, 08

The Desert Song *** (1943, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 5738

Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]

Jul, 09

So Dark the Night ***½ (1946, Steven Geray, Ann Codee, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Egon Brecher, Helen Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 5631

Director Joseph H Lewis’s stylish 1946 low-budget noir thriller So Dark the Night stars dashing Steven Geray as Henri Cassin, the Parisian copper who comes a cropper when he takes a takes a rare holiday […]

Jun, 18

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