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The late, lamented, highly talented director Frank Perry (David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife) turns his hand to the 1971 ‘Doc’, a useful spaghetti Western about sharp-shooting poker gambler Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), […]
Star Paul Newman and director John Huston are in easy-going mood in the likeable 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, an amusing if unfocused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-type Western […]
The overwhelming, unexpected success of Easy Rider allowed Peter Fonda the chance to direct himself, as Harry Collings and Warren Oates as Arch Harris, in the ‘meaningful’ 1971 Western The Hired Hand as drifters toying […]
After the 1970 A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris’s 19th-century English gentleman John Morgan, known as Horse, comes back to the American West and undergoes the sun-vow ritual again for the sake of trying to […]
Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio – a suppressed masterpiece. Co-writer/ director Sergio Corbucci’s ambitious and brilliant Italian-made 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio [The Big […]
Director Tim Whelan’s 1955 Western stars Randolph Scott as canny Peterson Detective Agency undercover agent James Barlow, who is taken on by the Chicago cops to hoodwink and round up the rotten real-life Reno Brothers (Forrest […]
‘Raze the village! Burn this pestilence!’ Ralph Nelson’s intelligent 1970 Western film Soldier Blue has real quality – if you can stomach the strong violence. It stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss and Donald Pleasence. ‘Raze […]