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Director Henry Hathaway’s unusually tense and claustrophobic 1951 Western adventure features an intelligent screenplay by Dudley Nichols, inventive direction and ingenious camerawork by cinematographer Milton R Krasner that makes good use of the mainly interior […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an escaped convict called Sam Gillen hiding out with lovely young widow Clydie Anderson (Arquette) and her little son Mookie (Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay) and young daughter Bree (Tiffany Taubman). While Sam […]
George Cosmatos’s 1993 film Tombstone stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and is written by Kevin Jarre, the original director, fired early in production. The film was a hit […]
Clint Eastwood’s 1976 storming revenge Western is still the last great Western, despite later challenges for the title from Dances with Wolves (1990) and his own Unforgiven (1992). Eastwood directs himself as Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer man of peace who […]
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in director James Mangold’s strong, gritty, film noir-style 2007 Western, a commendable remake of the 1957 3:10 to Yuma, based on Elmore Leonard’s short story . A well-cast Crowe and Bale give […]
Delmer Daves’s 1957 classic film 3:10 to Yuma is a suspenseful, masterly Fifties Western of the High Noon school, with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin ideally cast. Based on a 1953 short story by Elmore […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Western features players boldly cast but all too evidently off their usual underworld patch. James Cagney is the notorious ‘good’ outlaw, Jim Kincaid, aka The Oklahoma Kid, who seeks to avenge […]