Hawks and Wayne's first redo of their earlier "Rio Bravo" hit with Robert Mitchum in the Dean Martin role, James Caan in the Ricky Nelson role, Charlene Holt in the Angie Dickinson role and John Wayne ...

November, Noirvember, tomato, tomahto. The Criterion Channel continue their quest to find every known subgenre with “Blackout Noir,” which places Terence Fisher’s semi-eponymous 1954 picture alongside ...

Howard Hawks was attracted to the purity of succinctness. The filmmaker had no patience for handwringing, self-pity, artless exposition, or for any formal element that could be interpreted as ...

John Ford was perhaps the most revered director in Hollywood history, and to this day he is the only one to win the Academy Award for best director four times. Yet even Ford knew when he had met his ...

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