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Day of the Evil Gun *** (1968, Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8309

Director Jerry Thorpe’s torpor-ridden 1968 B-movie Western Day of the Evil Gun may be routine but at least it has a very decent cast and a lot of old-style professionalism to recommend it. Glenn Ford […]

Mar, 29

The Kid Who Would Be King ** (2019, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is a good-hearted but lame, tame and wilfully old-fashioned kids’ adventure movie, offering a fairly dull spin on the Arthurian legend. It just goes to show that, like […]

Feb, 23

Across the Wide Missouri ** (1951, Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 6711

Director William A Wellman’s 1951 Western stars Clark Gable as pioneering beaver trapper Flint Mitchell, who cynically marries Kamiah (Maria Elena Marques), a young Native American woman, just to gain permission to hunt in her people’s […]

Feb, 19

The Far Country **** (1954, James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 2048

Director Anthony Mann’s sterling 1954 Western is one of the finest results of his fruitful five-movie collaboration with James Stewart, who stars as strong-minded, self-obsessed adventurer Jeff Webster. It is notable as one of the few Westerns, […]

Jan, 04

For a Few Dollars More [Per qualche dollaro in più] ***** (1965, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 1368

Clint Eastwood returned to Spain for a few dollars more – actually only $50,000, but his percentage of the movie must have compensated for this low salary – to re-team with co-writer/ director Sergio Leone […]

Jun, 28

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