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Special Agent ** (1949, William Eythe, Kasey Rogers, George Reeves, Paul Valentine) – Classic Movie Review 11,265

Director William C Thomas’s standard issue 1949 black and white thriller Special Agent stars William Eythe as Railway Special Agent Johnny Douglas, who battles train payroll sibling thieves Paul and Edmond Devereaux (George Reeves, Paul […]

Jun, 03

The Farmer Takes a Wife * (1953, Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,668

Director Henry Levin’s 1953 Twentieth Century Fox comedy musical romance The Farmer Takes a Wife is a plushly produced but uninvolving musical rehash of the sweet 1935 original The Farmer Takes a Wife. It is […]

Dec, 14

Cattle Drive *** (1951, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Bob Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8399

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1951 Universal International Western movie Cattle Drive may not be outstanding, but it is well crafted, entirely amiable and appealingly acted – Joel McCrea and Dean Stockwell are excellent – with outstanding […]

Apr, 26

Young Tom Edison *** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 7914

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 biopic Young Tom Edison stars the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is conscientious in the star part in this plush, well-crafted first part of MGM’s two-film biography of the inventor Thomas Alva […]

Dec, 17

A Ticket to Tomahawk *** (1950, Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7528

Director Richard Sale’s sprightly, enjoyable and lighthearted 1950 Western A Ticket to Tomahawk stars Dan Dailey as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces, a travelling salesman caught up in a race between a stagecoach and a train across the […]

Sep, 02

Tycoon ** (1947, John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, James Gleason, Judith Anderson, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6992

Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]

May, 03

Santa Fe ** (1951, Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M Thompson, John Archer, Roy Roberts, Warner Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 6703

Director Irving Pichel’s 1951 Columbia Technicolor Western stars Randolph Scott as Britt Canfield, who leads his three younger brothers out West in search of adventure in this run-of-the-mill fighting-family Western. The trio of brothers, Terry, Tom and Clint […]

Feb, 17

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