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‘These Were the Wild-Riding Vikings of the Great Plains! Against the background of a turbulent era when Civil War was a flaming cloud on history’s horizon… A TREMENDOUS MOTION PICTURE!’ Co-writer/ director Melvin Frank’s manly […]
Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1948 drama Fighting Father Dunne stars Pat O’Brien as crusading priest Father Peter J Dunne, who is fighting for a home for poor orphan St Louis newsboys in 1905, in this well-meaning […]
Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott and Victor Jory kick up some considerable sparks in director Ray Enright’s strongly cast, a notch or so above routine 1949 Western South of St Louis about the lives and loves […]
Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell give dazzlingly brilliant performances in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s supremely dark and dangerous black comedy crime drama. McDonagh sure does like living dangerously, as he previously showed in In Bruges (2008) and Seven […]
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 […]
Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1949 Western stars Preston Foster as old sheriff John Kelley, who helps a guilt-attacked Bob Ford (John Ireland), the man who shot his old best friend Jesse James (Reed Hadley) in order […]
Director Norman Taurog and producer David O Selznick’s 1938 movie adaptation of Mark Twain’s beloved 1876 children’s favourite classic adventure story is a thoroughly enjoyable vintage entertainment. It is the first film version of the novel […]