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Take a Hard Ride *** (1975, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 8840

Director Anthony M Dawson’s 1975 Take a Hard Ride [La Lunga Cavalcata] stars Jim Brown as trail boss Pike, who agrees with wealthy employer Morgan (Dana Andrews) to deliver a stash of payroll cash to a […]

Aug, 18

West of the Pecos *** (1945, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Hale, Richard Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8774

Director Edward Killy’s 1945 Western movie West of the Pecos is another film lifted by its stars Robert Mitchum and Barbara Hale, and its stalwart cast, but also by Killy’s brisk, competent, no-nonsense direction. RKO […]

Jul, 28

The Wedding Night *** (1935, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Sig Ruman, Helen Vinson) – Classic Movie Review 7178

Gary Cooper stars in the romantic drama The Wedding Night (1935) as an author called Tony Barrett who is married to Dora (Helen Vinson), and causes chaos in a Polish farming family when he takes a […]

Jun, 16

Bright Leaf **** (1950, Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Donald Crisp, Jack Carson, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 6309

Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]

Nov, 25

Finian’s Rainbow **** (1968, Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 4728

Fred Astaire is still nimble and sprightly at the age of 69 as Finian McLonergan, and Petula Clark is pleasing as his daughter Sharon, in director Francis Ford Coppola’s highly appealing 1968 movie version of […]

Dec, 01

Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]

Feb, 19

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