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The Last Outlaw *** (1927, Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Betty Jewel, Herbert Prior) – Classic Movie Review 12,006

Director Arthur Rosson’s 1927 American Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation silent Western film The Last Outlaw stars Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Betty Jewel and Herbert Prior. It is written by John Stone and J Walter Rubin, […]

Mar, 13

Brigham Young **** (1940, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jagger, Jane Darwell, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8473

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1940 historical adventure saga of pioneering Mormons and the founding of Salt Lake City stars Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Brian Donlevy, with Dean Jagger on good form as Brigham Young, the […]

May, 16

Unconquered *** (1947, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7695

Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille’s 1947 pioneer picture Unconquered, in which American colonists battle the Indians, is engagingly overblown and amusingly daft. It is shot in glorious Technicolor. Paulette Goddard plays Abby Hale, a cockney convict transported […]

Oct, 22

The Big Sky **** (1952, Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Steve Geray, Jim Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7315

The rousing 1952 Western film The Big Sky stars Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin as frontiersmen who sign up for trader Steve Geray’s fur-trapping trip along the Missouri in a keel boat. Director Howard Hawks’s […]

Jul, 20

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ** (1976, Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp) – Classic Movie Review 5442

Director Don Taylor’s 1976 comedy Western is an amiable but uneven entertainment. Stars Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed and Robert Culp and its easy-going nature make up for the general air of slackness. Lee Marvin does […]

May, 12

Many Rivers to Cross **½ (1955, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 4369

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 […]

Sep, 15

The Revenant **** (2015, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas) – Movie Review

‘All I had was my boy… but he took him from me, you understand? He’s afraid. He knows how far I came to find him. ‘ In his first role since The Wolf of Wall […]

Dec, 19

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