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Posts Tagged "Texas"

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Branded *** (1950, Alan Ladd, Charles Bickford, Mona Freeman, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen, Selena Royle) – Classic Movie Review 5418

Director Rudolph Maté’s robust 1950 Western stars Alan Ladd, who plays a cool crook baddie called Choya, posing as cattle baron Charles Bickford’s and his wife Selena Royle’s long-vanished son, abducted years ago to swindle […]

May, 07

The Apostle **** (1997, Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Farrah Fawcett) – Classic Movie Review 5401

Writer-director-star Robert Duvall’s 1997 drama is extraordinary, motored by Duvall’s barnstormingly powerful performance as an extremely egotistical religious man, the Texas preacher Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey, who sets himself above everything and everybody. His life falls […]

May, 06

Big Bad Mama II ** (1987, Angie Dickinson, Robert Culp, Danielle Brisebois, Julie McCullough, Jeff Yagher, Bruce Glover) – Classic Movie Review 5370

The 55-year-old Angie Dickinson returns as big bad Wilma McClatchie, a feisty armed robber dame, in co-writer/ director Jim Wynorski’s neo-noir crime action thriller Big Bad Mama II, an unexpected, belated 1987 low-budget $1.2 million […]

Apr, 30

Race with the Devil *** (1975, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker) – Classic Movie Review 5338

A vacation collapses amid blood, rattlesnakes and much talk of runes in director Jack Starrett’s devillishly bad, racily handled 1975 junk movie favourite, a Seventies trash classic. It tracks holiday-makers Roger and Frank (Peter Fonda […]

Apr, 23

The Border ***½ (1982, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 5275

Director Tony Richardson’s 1982 desperately dour and downbeat thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a bored and corrupt US Border Patrol agent called Charlie Smith, who is guarding the Mexican border. He operates on the fuzzy side […]

Apr, 10

Lone Star State of Mind ** (2002, Joshua Jackson, Jamie King, Matthew Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5147

Joshua Jackson stars in director David Semel’s 2002 movie as a young Texas small-town mechanic, who lands in trouble when he has to bail out his fiancée Baby (Jamie King)’s dim cousin Junior (D J […]

Mar, 13

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

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