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Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

Greed ***** (1924, Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 2458

Co-writer/director Erich von Stroheim’s swirlingly obsessive 1924 epic silent movie tale of money obsession is ambitious and masterly. It was a critical and financial failure on its initial release, but by the 1950s it began […]

May, 06

Kelly’s Heroes **** (1970, Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Carroll O’Connor, Richard Davalos, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 2401

Director Brian G Hutton’s 1970 World War Two wartime action adventure romp is exuberantly handled and engagingly played by an iconic cast of Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland and Carroll O’Connor. Preposterously […]

Apr, 17

Paint Your Wagon *** (1969, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 2183

Director Joshua Logan’s 1969 musical is infamous as the one that got Clint Eastwood singing (‘I Talk to the Trees’) and landed Lee Marvin with a number one UK pop chart hit (‘Wand’rin’ Star’), earning […]

Feb, 19

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03

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

One-Eyed Jacks ***** (1961, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 1678

Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]

Sep, 15

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