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Pancho Villa [El Desafio de Pancho Villa] *½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors, Anne Francis ) – Classic Movie Review 6346

An exciting train-crunching station shootout climax helps to save director Eugenio [Gene] Martin’s too often mundane and dreary 1971 paella Western from total tedium. And so do the star cast of Telly Savalas as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, […]

Dec, 02

Major Dundee **** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 5680

Charlton Heston gives a bravura turn as the tormented cavalry Major Amos Dundee and Richard Harris excels too as Captain Benjamin Tyreen, a dashing Confederate rebel, in director Sam Peckinpah’s troubled 1965 epic Western about […]

Jun, 28

Geronimo *** (1962, Chuck Connors, Adam West, Kamala Devi, Pat Conway, Lawrence Dobkin) – Classic Movie Review 5580

Producer-director Arnold Laven’s 1962 Technicolor movie stars Chuck Connors as Apache warrior Geronimo in this caring, pro-Native American Western about the Indian Chief trying to fight back against the US soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Lawrence […]

Jun, 11

The Shopworn Angel **** (1938, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, Sam Levene, Alan Curtis, Nat Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 4579

The tearful 1938 wartime romantic drama film The Shopworn Angel is a tasty reworking of the old story, with the right cast in James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan to make it work.  Director H C […]

Nov, 03

The Brain from Planet Arous **½ (1957, John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 4347

Nathan Juran’s so-terrible-it’s-fun movie The Brain from Planet Arous is bizarrely amusing virtually throughout, with acting and effects to match. It has survived years of terrible reviews to become a cult classic. It is silly […]

Sep, 11

Invasion of the Star Creatures * (1962, Robert Ball, Frankie Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3776

Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are putridly unfunny as Private Philbrick and Private Penn, US soldiers who investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and uncover the titular lady alien Star Creatures (Dolores Reed […]

May, 28

G I Blues **** (1960, Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers, James Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1360

Director Norman Taurog’s 1960 musical G I Blues is an effective tailor-made show for Elvis Presley, then just back in movies after service in the US Army as the most publicised American soldier since General […]

Jun, 26

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