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Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]
Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]
Randolph Scott makes a sterling hero as the noble frontiersman Hawkeye in director George B Seitz’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1936 adventure movie based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale of the French-Native American battles in the […]
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1956 Western adventure is a soppy, risible, penny-pinching little movie with more accent on love tangles than on gun-slinging action. It pushes its luck by re-using extensive archive footage from the outstanding John […]
Michael Fassbender’s Centurion Quintus Dias, Dominic West’s General Titus Flavius Virilus and a bunch of Roman Centurions of the legendary Ninth Legion are over here in the good old Britain of 117AD, where life is nasty, […]
Director André de Toth’s upper middle-of-the-range 1955 Western provides a good star role for Kirk Douglas, who plays The Indian Fighter conducting the wagon train across hostile Sioux land when he gets involved with a […]
Director John Ford makes the 1950 closing episode in his US Cavalry trilogy third time lucky and essential old Hollywood viewing. John Wayne again stars, this time as a Cavalry officer dealing with the plundering […]