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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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]