d4doome · @d4doome
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Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952) belongs to the strange wondrous overheated western melodrama sub-genre. An odd very stylised western that makes no concessions to realism. In its own way as bizarre and unusual as Forty Guns. I loved it.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/rancho-notorious-1952.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Wrong Number (1959) is a 1959 British heist thriller. It has a neat little plot, terrific acting and just the right amount of humour. The vital clue is a phone call, a wrong number that might be unlucky for the thieves. A good solid B-movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2019/05/wrong-number-1959.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Audie Murphy made some great westerns. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) is not one of them. It does however look great and is fun in a movie junk food sort of way. Don Siegel directed so there's plenty of fine action. I enjoyed it.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-duel-at-silver-creek-1952.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston star in Anthony Mann's western The Furies (1950), a slightly noirish nicely overheated psycho-sexual-emotional melodrama. Not a perfect film but fascinating and hugely enjoyable with Stanwyck and Huston in top form.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-furies-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Watched Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) yet again and I'm still impressed by its technical perfection. And I'm noticing the subtle and disturbing touches of moral ambiguity. A great movie and an interesting one.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/strangers-on-train-1951-hitchcock.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston’s faithful and excellent adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s great novel. An excellent film noir about a heist. Fine performance by Sterling Hayden. Marilyn Monroe has a bit part.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-asphalt-jungle-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Hannibal (1959), a late Edgar G. Ulmer film. Surprisingly, a lavish costume epic with no less than 12,000 extras in the battle scenes. A good movie but could have been a great one if the studio had allowed Ulmer to make it the way he wanted to.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2015/09/hannibal-1959.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) is a fairly standard revenge western but it's well-crafted and worth seeing for the fine performances by Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea as enemies who become unlikely allies. It did need a more memorable villain.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/ride-clear-of-diablo-1954.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Sissi (1955), the most famous and most successful entry in the German heimatfilm genre. If you’re in the mood for a lightweight feelgood fluffy romance with a fairytale vibe then this is just what you’re looking for.
It made Romy Schneider a star and she's adorable.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/sissi-1955.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Jacques Tourneur’s Timbuktu is an old-fashioned Foreign Legion adventure movie, in fact even a little old-fashioned by the standards of 1958. That’s probably why I liked it so much. As a bonus it stars Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2015/06/timbuktu-1958.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Hangman’s Knot, a 1952 western with Randolph Scott. His gang has pulled off a daring robbery but things are not how they seem. Scott is great, with a touch of moral ambiguity. Lee Marvin gives a trademark psychotic performance.
A fine western.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/hangmans-knot-1952.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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3:10 to Yuma (1957), directed by Delmer Daves. One of the great westerns. A deceptively simple story of a reluctant deputy trying to get an outlaw onto a train that will take him to jail.
Based on an equally good Elmore Leonard story. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are both superb.
Wonderfully stark b&w cinematography.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/310-to-yuma-1957.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Man from the Alamo is a 1953 Budd Boetticher western with Glenn Ford as a man with a reputation for cowardice hanging over his head, a reputation he feels (with some justification) is undeserved.
An intelligent grown-up western and an exciting action-packed movie with fine large-scale action sequences.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-man-from-alamo-1953.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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All That Heaven Allows (1955), a glorious melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter. Middle-aged widow Jane Wyman falls in love with her gardener (Rock Hudson).
Melodrama has always been despised by critics but I enjoy it, and this one has class.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-that-heaven-allows-1955.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Nevadan (1950) is a very routine western with a predictable plot.
It's redeemed to some extent by fine performances from Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone and George Macready and by fine action sequences at the start and finish.
It's well-made and looks great, with some lovely location shooting.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-nevadan-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Ride a Crooked Trail is a 1958 Audie Murphy western and I'm a big Audie Murphy fan. It's the mysterious stranger riding into town thing, and the mistaken identity thing, but with some twists.
An interesting western with a bit of character complexity. Good stuff. Great performances by Audie Murphy and Walter Matthau.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/01/ride-crooked-trail-1958.html
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