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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]