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All the King’s Men **** (1949, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 3045

Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]

Nov, 09

Giant **** (1956, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 1080

George Stevens’s ambitious 1956 film Giant was a triumph for him, winning the Best Director Oscar. But it is most memorable for 24-year-old James Dean’s final role as bitter entrepreneur Jett Rink, set on destroying […]

Apr, 12

Johnny Guitar ****½ (1954, Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady) – Classic Film Review 378

Joan Crawford stars in Johnny Guitar as the strong-willed, gun-toting saloon queen called Vienna in her first Western since 1928’s The Law of the Range. Nicholas Ray’s 1954 camp, kitsch Western is irresistibly strange, indeed quite outlandish, and […]

Nov, 07

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