Westward The Women
Westward The Women (1951) follows Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) as he leads a group of one-hundred and forty women (including Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and Julie Bishop) from Chicago to… Read more »
Tag: Robert Taylor
Party Girl
Party Girl (1958) combines the gritty truths of a showgirl’s life with the romantic garishness of MGM; it’s a balancing act between the unbridled machismo of the gangster drama and… Read more »
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe (1952) was MGM’s big blockbuster and Oscar contender of 1952. Richard Thorpe directs this rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel starring Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Taylor as… Read more »
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge (1940) opens with aged general Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) leaving London to go to war in 1939. On his way to Waterloo Station he stops at Waterloo Bridge… Read more »
Saddle The Wind
Saddle The Wind (1958) should be a classic western. Rod Serling’s script brings an existential dread to the familiar tale of a brother trying to pull his younger brother back… Read more »
Conspirator
Arthur Hornblow Jr. produces this American-British co production with all the trappings of Hollywood prestige that he brought to his earlier screwball comedies. Hornblow Jr.’s films always tend to be… Read more »
Many Rivers To Cross
Film aficionados and critics alike are familiar with the speculation pertaining to homosexual readings of old Hollywood films, before homosexuality was acceptable outside of the closet in the cinema. Kenneth… Read more »
Knights Of The Round Table
Although I did not know it at the time, Richard Thorpe is the first director whose career I ever charted as an audience member. And though I cannot find his… Read more »
