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Director John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1963 romantic drama The Stripper [Woman of Summer] stars the always-admirable Joanne Woodward, who builds up an ungrateful role as Lila Green, a washed-up showgirl/ struggling actress who is dumped by […]
Though nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary, director Edwin L Marin’s 1949 movie Fighting Man of the Plains is a good, solid action Western. Frank Gruber writes the screenplay, based on his novel. Randolph […]
‘Gateway to the West … Doorway to Hell!’ That is Wichita, the place. Wichita, the film is supposedly ‘The incredible but true story of WYATT EARP!’ Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 Western film Wichita stars reliable […]
Director David Stevens’s 1988 romantic crime thriller Kansas stars a finally clearly post-teen idol Matt Dillon (then 24), who is well cast as Doyle Kennedy, a psychopathic ex-convict who involves middle-class hitchhiker Wade Corey (Andrew […]
Director Edwin L Marin’s modest 1946 Western stars Randolph Scott as Dan Mitchell, the marshal trying to keep an uneasy peace between the murderous, grasping cattlemen and the peace-loving homesteaders in his Abilene, Kansas home […]
James Garner stars as a con man called Quincy Drew who keeps selling his African American sidekick Jason O’Rourke (Louis Gossett Jr [Lou Gossett]) as a slave and then rescuing him. Jason keeps escaping and […]