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Director Ray Enright’s stirring 1942 Western is the rousing fourth version of the much filmed 1906 Rex Beach Alaska gold rush saga (there are five movies). It is adapted for the screen by Lawrence Hazard and […]
The stalwart 1955 Western film Man with the Gun stars Robert Mitchum as a gunman who rides into town looking for his estranged wife (Jan Sterling) and is hired for as sheriff to take on […]
The still outrageously tacky Seventies drag star Divine and the still very handsome Fifties and Sixties heart-throb Tab Hunter (nicknamed The Sigh Guy) reunite for the saucy, funny 1984 spaghetti Western spoof Lust in the […]
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 […]
Director George Sidney’s delightful 1946 MGM period Western musical sees Judy Garland on her best form (as Susan Bradley) performing great numbers, including the brilliant Oscar-winning Best Original Song ‘On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa […]
Director David Butler’s 1953 classic Golden Age musical Calamity Jane stars Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind, along with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Sammy Fain’s haunting, show-stopping romantic number […]
Producer-director Frank Borzage’s strange but stirring 1940 adventure movie Strange Cargo sees Clark Gable and Joan Crawford pairing up for the eighth time. However, the main story is about a breakout from a South America […]