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Deliver Us from Evil ** (1973, George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 11,592

Director Boris Sagal’s men’s men 1973 made-for-TV crime adventure drama film Deliver Us from Evil stars George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Bradford Dillman, Jack Weston, Jim Davis, Charles Aidman and Allen Pinson. Six male hikers go […]

Sep, 21

The Oregon Trail ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull, John Carradine, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 10,631

Fred MacMurray stars as Eastern newspaper reporter Neal Harris, who comes West on a wagon-train pioneers story and helps to smooth the way between Indians and settlers in mid-19th century Oregon, in co-writer/ director Gene […]

Dec, 05

Canyon River ** (1956, George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,617

It’s a hard life in the West. You’d think Wyoming rancher Steve Patrick (George Montgomery) would have his hands full enough fighting off Indians and rustlers sent by his opponent Maddox (Walter Sande), while he […]

Dec, 02
The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Western film The Way West stars the heavy-weight trio of Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark, who make the most of this panoramic saga of a wagon train’s trek […]

Feb, 29

Three Faces West *** (1940, John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 7463

‘GUILTY…OF DARING TO LOVE AND LIVE! ‘ Three Faces West is directed in 1940 by New York City-born film-maker Bernard Vorhaus, a graduate of Harvard University, for Republic Pictures, where contract player John Wayne had finally become […]

Aug, 18

Leave No Trace **** (2018, Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Debra Granik’s haunting 2018 outsider survivalist drama Leave No Trace is totally compelling and absolutely first rate. Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie star as troubled dad Will and his surprisingly grown-up 13-year-old daughter Tom, […]

Jun, 03

The Covered Wagon ***** (1923, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, J Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 6834

Producer-director James Cruze’s trail-blazing 1923 silent Western is faded but important historically and it still impresses. Cruze’s major movie is one of the first American epics and notable for elevating the Western from popular potboiler to important epic. […]

Mar, 20

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