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Posts Tagged "wagon train"

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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ** (1956, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr, Faron Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,406

The 1956 Western adventure film Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer is set in 1775 during the American War of Independence, and stars Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr and Faron Young. Directors Albert C Gannaway and Ismael Rodriguez’s 1956 […]

Feb, 19

Escort West ** (1959, Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue) – Classic Movie Review 11,919

Director Francis D Lyon’s 1959 black and white CinemaScope Western film Escort West stars Victor Mature in an old, tediously over-familiar story about the former Confederate officer Ben Lassiter (Mature) and his 10-year-old daughter Abbey […]

Feb, 09

The Oregon Trail ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull, John Carradine, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 10,631

Fred MacMurray stars as Eastern newspaper reporter Neal Harris, who comes West on a wagon-train pioneers story and helps to smooth the way between Indians and settlers in mid-19th century Oregon, in co-writer/ director Gene […]

Dec, 05

The Outriders ** (1950, Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr, Ramon Novarro, James Whitmore, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Martin Garralaga) – Classic Movie Review 10,273

Director Roy Rowland’s 1950 film The Outriders stars Joel McCrea, Barry Sullivan and James Whitmore as three US Civil War soldiers who escape from a Yankee jail and join a wagon train carrying gold, which […]

Sep, 07
The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

The Way West ** (1967, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Michael Witney, Sally Field, Stubby Kaye, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 9446

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Western film The Way West stars the heavy-weight trio of Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark, who make the most of this panoramic saga of a wagon train’s trek […]

Feb, 29

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]

Oct, 12

Westward Ho, the Wagons! *** (1956, Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 7155

Director William Beaudine’s 1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a Walt Disney Wild West adventure for family consumption that lacks both the kind of vim and grit we expect from Westerns but it is entirely […]

Jun, 11

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