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Framed *** (1975, Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, John Larch) – Classic Movie Review 9578

Director Phil Karlson’s 1975 action crime thriller Framed stars Joe Don Baker as innocent gambler Ron Lewis who is out after four years of jail for supposedly killing a town sheriff (he has killed the […]

Mar, 30

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] *** (1980, Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner) – Classic Movie Review 9567

Director Dick Lowry’s 1980 TV Movie Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] is a pleasant, good-looking Western, based on a hit song by the country singer Kenny Rogers, about a gambler called Brady Hawkes, […]

Mar, 27

Please Believe Me ** (1950, Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9363

Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]

Feb, 09

Saratoga Trunk ** (1945, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 9105

Director Sam Wood’s 1943 romantic drama Western movie Saratoga Trunk is an overblown, overextended film of Edna Ferber’s big novel about romance and revenge set against the background of the New Orleans railroad wars. Despite […]

Nov, 28

The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895

Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]

Sep, 10

Belle Le Grand ** (1951, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson, John Qualen, Stephen Chase, Harry Morgan, Muriel Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7634

Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]

Oct, 03

Across the Great Divide ** (1976, Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall) – Classic Movie Review 6452

Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch. […]

Dec, 22

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