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Sam Peckinpah’s fascinating, now legendary 1973 Western film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid retells the legend of Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) hunting down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). Director Sam […]
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 […]
Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]
Director Anthony Mann’s superb 1955 Western is the fifth and final fruit of his splendid collaboration with James Stewart. Stewart plays The Man from Laramie, Will Lockhart, the stranger who rides into town looking for […]
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 Vicente Minnelli’s 1955 MGM musical version of the hit show, based on the old Edward Knoblock (non-musical play Kismet and Aleksandr Borodin’s music, is kitsch and luridly colourful in odd Eastmancolor. Howard Keel […]
In one of their finest Westerns, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star together as marshal Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday for director John Sturges’s 1957 classic Gunfight at the OK Corral. It certainly deserves […]
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