TCM recently announced the films to be shown at its 2023 Classic Film Festival on 13-16 April 2023. They include the world premiere of a new 4K restoration of Howard Hawks’ 1959 Western classic ‘Rio Bravo’. The film remains amongst my all-time favourites and is probably the one I have watched more than any other….
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Film Review – BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955, USA) ****½ Crime, Drama, Western dist. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); pr co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); d. John Sturges; w. Millard Kaufman, Don McGuire (based on a story “Bad Time at Hondo” by Howard Breslin); pr. Dore Schary; assoc pr. Herman Hoffman; ph. William C. Mellor (Eastmancolor. 35mm. CinemaScope. 2.55:1); m. André Previn;…
Film Review – THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (USA, 1933) **** Distributor: Universal Pictures; Production Company: Universal Pictures; Release Date: 3 November 1933 (USA), 30 November 1933 (UK); Filming Dates: August 1933; Running Time: 71m; Colour: B&W; Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording Sound System); Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1; BBFC Cert:…
Film Review – MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (USA, 1946) ***** Distributor: 20th Century Fox; Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Release Date: 16 October 1946 (USA), November 1946 (UK); Filming Dates: 1 April–mid June 1946; Running Time: 97m; Colour: B&W; Sound Mix: Mono; Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1; BBFC Cert: U….
Film Review – THE FAR COUNTRY (1954)
THE FAR COUNTRY (USA, 1954) ***½ Distributor: Universal Pictures (USA), General Film Distributors (GFD) (UK); Production Company: Universal International Pictures (UI); Release Date: 22 July 1954 (UK), 12 February 1955 (USA); Filming Dates: 19 August–mid October 1953; Running Time: 97m; Colour: Technicolor; Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Recording); Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical;…
Film Review – RIO BRAVO (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959; USA; Technicolor; 141m) ***** d. Howard Hawks; w. Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett; ph. Russell Harlan; m. Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, John Russell, Ricky Nelson, Claude Akins, Bob Steele, Myron Healey, Estelita Rodriguez, Malcolm Atterbury, Yakima Canutt, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Bing Russell. A small-town…
Film Review – RED RIVER (1948)
Red River (1948; USA; B&W; 133m) ****½ d. Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson; w. Borden Chase, Charles Schnee; ph. Russell Harlan; m. Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Chief Yowlachie, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Hal Taliaferro, Shelley…
Film Review – TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944, USA, 100m, PG) ****½ Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, War dist. Warner Bros.; pr co. Warner Bros.; d. Howard Hawks; w. Jules Furthman, William Faulkner (based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway); pr. Howard Hawks (uncredited); ph. Sid Hickox (B&W | 1.37:1); m. Franz Waxman (uncredited); m/l. Hoagy Carmichael, Stanley…