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The Hard Man ** (1957, Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 9433

‘The Hard Man Will EXCITE You!’: The 1957 Technicolor Western film The Hard Man stars Guy Madison as Steve Burden, who takes the job of Deputy in El Solito, controlled by a villainous cattle baron […]

Feb, 27

Warlock **** (1959, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels) – Classic Movie Review 6494

Producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s ambitious and gripping 1959 adult Western has a strong cast headed by Henry Fonda as a famous cultured gun-slinging killer called Clay Blaisedell, who is hired as lawman by the cowardly citizens […]

Dec, 30

Young Guns *** (1988, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko) – Classic Movie Review 6492

Director Christopher Cain and writer John Fusco score a huge success in 1988 in reviving the Western genre for a young audience, with youth appeal proving the key. On a budget of $13 million, it […]

Dec, 30

Two-Fisted Law ** (1932, Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Wheeler Oakman, Tully Marshall, Walter Brennan, John Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 5482

Tim McCoy stars as rancher Tim Clark, who, having been cheated out of his ranch becomes a prospector for silver and strikes it rich, and returns to Betty Owen (Alice Day), the woman he loves. […]

May, 19

Bone Tomahawk **** (2015, Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins) – Movie Review

Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s 2015 epic Western is a brilliant bone-cruncher. It’s a bone-a-fide gun-slinging cult hit. When there’s trouble in a Wild West town, the grizzled sheriff (Kurt Russell), his ancient back-up deputy (Richard Jenkins) and […]

Feb, 18

Rio Bravo ***** (1959, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 2540

Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance, who prevents a killer called Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) from escaping out of […]

May, 30

First Blood **** (1982, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 1599

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 action thriller First Blood profitably started Sylvester Stallone off on a new career as his iconic character, Vietnam veteran John J Rambo, rivalling his Rocky character for popularity. Indeed its success […]

Aug, 28

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