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West Point *** (1928, William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell) – Classic Movie Review 7639

Director Edward Sedgwick’s humorous black and white silent romantic drama movie West Point (1927) stars William Haines as wealthy, talented but arrogant sportsman Brice Wayne, who enters West Point and succeeds at football but alienates the other […]

Oct, 06

Breakfast for Two *** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6772

There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]

Mar, 06

Thunder Over the Plains ** (1953, Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw, Elisha Cook Jr, Henry Hull, Hugh Sanders, Lane Chandler, Fess Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6686

‘HIS WAS THE MOMENT HE HAD TO COUNT HIS BULLETS… because he couldn’t count on his friends!’ In Texas after the American Civil War, it is all happening to Randolph Scott’s fine, upstanding US Cavalry […]

Feb, 14

Lone Star *** (1952, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Lionel Barrymore, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 5,145

The 1952 large-scale Western film Lone Star stars Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, and is set against Texas’s battle to be independent. Ava said: ‘Clark, you do realise that this dog of a movie we […]

Mar, 13

The Alamo * (2004, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà, Leon Rippy, Marc Blucas) – 5055

‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]

Feb, 24

Buchanan Rides Alone **** (1958, Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Manuel Rojas, Barry Kelley, Peter Whitney, L Q Jones, Tol Avery) – Classic Movie Review 3,508

Budd Boetticher’s 1958 cult classic Western film Buchanan Rides Alone stars Randolph Scott as Texas cowboy drifter Buchanan, who rides alone against a nasty dynasty who run the Tex-Mex border town of Agry. Director Budd […]

Mar, 29

The Falcon Out West ** (1944, Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 3215

‘There are three things one can never be sure about – horses, the weather and women’ – The Falcon. Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (Tom Conway) goes out West to investigate the roots of […]

Jan, 02

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