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Writer-director Percy Adlon’s 1991 German drama film Salmonberries stars k d lang, Rosel Zech, Oscar Kawagley, Chuck Connors and Jane Lind, with dialogue mostly in English. Canadian singer k d lang plays androgynous orphaned Eskimo drifter Kotzebue, […]
Shop owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) clashes with slimy financier George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), after the latter’s fiancée Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) falls for the former and one of Donlevy’s bank clients is killed. The […]
‘Three Daring Adventurers! Clever enough to outsmart a town… brave enough to save it!’ Director Charles Jarrott’s impeccable 1976 family drama Escape from the Dark [The Littlest Horse Thieves] is based on Rosemary Anne Sisson’s […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]
Producer-director John Sturges’s good-looking, robust 1965 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart, who is assigned to protect a valuable shipment of whisky en route to the thirsty miners in Denver. Native Americans, the US […]
John Sayles’s outstanding 1987 film Matewan is a meaty, intelligent drama about a violent clash between a West Virginia 1920s coal company and striking miners. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones and David Strathairn star. Writer-director […]
Director Ray Enright’s stirring 1942 Western is the rousing fourth version of the much filmed 1906 Rex Beach Alaska gold rush saga (there are five movies). It is adapted for the screen by Lawrence Hazard and […]