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The 1979 Western film Tom Horn is notable as Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie and his final Western. It tells the tale of the last days of real-life Wyoming cavalry scout and bounty hunter Tom Horn, […]
The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]
The 1978 horror thriller The Swarm is a particularly silly disaster movie from the king of genre, producer-director Irwin Allen, that is a hoot to watch if you are in the right frame of mind. […]
Sam Peckinpah’s fascinating, now legendary 1973 Western film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid retells the legend of Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) hunting down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson). Director Sam […]
Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]
Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]
Anything goes in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 Western spoof comedy classic film Blazing Saddles. The residents of the little Western town of Rock Ridge find themselves the pathetic victims of its corrupt political boss, the […]