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Jim Thorpe – All-American ** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 8549

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1951 biographical sports drama Jim Thorpe – All American [Man of Bronze] stars Burt Lancaster as American-Indian track star Jim Thorpe, who wins both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics […]

Jun, 04

The Manitou ** (1978, Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 8303

Alas poor Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan and Lurene Tuttle! How did these good old actors get involved in director William Girdler’s entertainingly absurd 1978 chiller hokum The Manitou about Susan Strasberg […]

Mar, 28

Cactus Jack [The Villain] ** (1979, Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Ruth Buzzi) – Classic Movie Review 8281

Director Hal Needham’s 1979 over-broad, cartoonish comedy Western spoof Cactus Jack [The Villain] stars Kirk Douglas as a mane but incompetent outlaw called Cactus Jack Slade caught between his prey, the charming heroine Charming Jones (Ann-Margret) […]

Mar, 22

The Big Sky **** (1952, Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Steve Geray, Jim Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7315

The rousing 1952 Western film The Big Sky stars Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin as frontiersmen who sign up for trader Steve Geray’s fur-trapping trip along the Missouri in a keel boat. Director Howard Hawks’s […]

Jul, 20

The FBI Story ***½ (1959, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6,658

The 1959 thriller film The FBI Story stars James Stewart as Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty. The FBI controlled every move and the production had J Edgar Hoover breathing down their neck constantly. […]

Feb, 07

Hostiles *** (2017, Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi) – Movie Review

Writer-director Scott Cooper’s 2017 Western Hostiles is well done but it is a bit slow and dour, with an unbelievable, all too rapid change of heart for its hero and a corny ending too. But Christian Bale […]

Jan, 06

Cimarron * (1960, Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O’Connell, Vic Morrow, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge) – Classic Movie Review 6488

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 remake of the classic 1931 Western film Cimarron, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, is slow, overblown and empty, running a plodding 147 minutes. It is a real disappointment, despite […]

Dec, 29

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