Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "John Wayne"

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Red River ***** (1948, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 275

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s mammoth epic 1948 classic Western gives John Wayne one of his best ever roles as Thomas ‘Tom’ Dunson, a tyrannical empire-building cattleman. He seems to relish kicking up the dust, playing opposite […]

Oct, 06

High Noon ***** (1952, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Harry Morgan, Katy Jurado, Lon Chaney Jr, Otto Kruger) – Classic Movie Review 115

Director Fred Zinnemann’s classic 1952 suspense Western is sparked by a quintessential Gary Cooper performance as Will Kane, the beleaguered and abandoned lawman desperately searching for support to save the ungrateful town of Hadleyville, New […]

Aug, 01

The Quiet Man ***** (1952, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara) – Classic Movie Review 62

Winning his all-time-record fourth (and last) Best Director Oscar, director John Ford is totally in his element in this delightful, boisterous, good-natured 1952 movie. A double Academy Award winner, it is sparkily written Frank S […]

Jul, 18

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