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Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Lawless Frontier is a brisk, pacy, short and intriguing Lone Star/ Monogram studios B-movie Western, in which a pre-A-list stardom John Wayne plays John Tobin, who sets out to […]
Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]
Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) and her estranged father Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones), raised by the Apache people, are reunited by a crisis when her teenage daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is abducted by Pesh-Chidin […]
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker were not at their best in comedy, but they do show a surprisingly lively, nimble touch here as a reluctant Kentucky frontiersman called Bushrod Gentry (!) and Mary Cherne, the […]
Richard Dix was Oscar nominated as Best Actor in 1931 as Yancey Cravat in RKO’s Best Picture winner Cimarron, based on the popular novel by Edna Ferber. Director Wesley Ruggles’s creaky but still rewarding 1931 […]
Co-producer-director-star Kevin Costner comes up with a truly majestic epic Western in 1990 and wins seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Grown men have been known to weep at this […]
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