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Coffy *** (1973, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui) Classic Movie Review 9420

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1973 Coffy stars Pam Grier as sexy nurse ‘Coffy’ Coffin, who goes on the vengeance trail as a hooker with a great right hook after her sister is brain damaged by heroin, […]

Feb, 23

Gunpoint *** (1966, Audie Murphy, Joan Staley, Warren Stevens, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 8134

Director Earl Bellamy’s 1966 Universal Pictures Technicolor Western Gunpoint stars Audie Murphy as Colorado sheriff Chad Lucas, who points his ill-assorted posse into New Mexico after the ruthless gang of bandits, led by Drago Leon (Morgan […]

Feb, 15

Across the Great Divide ** (1976, Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall) – Classic Movie Review 6452

Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch. […]

Dec, 22

Westbound *** (1959, Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele Michael Dante, Andrew Duggan, Michael Pate) – Classic Movie Review 6440

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1959 classic cult Western stars Randolph Scott as Union officer Captain John Hayes, who is ordered to become the boss of the Overland Stage Line, and has to see a cargo of […]

Dec, 20

The Son of Monte Cristo ***½ (1940, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 4649

Director Rowland V Lee’s 1940 adventure is a lavish, pacy and entertaining swashbuckler, reuniting the two stars of the previous year’s The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett. Louis Hayward stars as the […]

Nov, 13

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend ** (1957, Randolph Scott, James Garner, Angie Dickinson, Gordon Jones, James Craig) – Classic Movie Review 3506

‘He called himself the ‘Preacher’…and he wrote his sermon in lead!’ Randolph Scott, James Garner and Gordon Jones star in director Richard L Bare’s 1957 average Western movie Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend as former soldiers […]

Mar, 28

The True Story of Jesse James **** (1957, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Lange, John Carradine, Alan Hale Jnr, Alan Baxter, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 3,393

The 1957 action biopic The True Story of Jesse James takes a fresh look at the Western tale of the James Brothers, and has strong work from Robert Wagner (as Jesse James) and Jeffrey Hunter […]

Feb, 21

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