This will be an ongoing series featuring lesser known films, that have merit. It also will discuss stars who are known for more famous films, but have a good performance in the spotlighted film. Clark Gable was an established star when he played Col Ulysses Delby (Lee) Johnson, a doctor who goes off to war. […]

John Wayne made many films. Many of them involved action. This is definitely one. It is also one of his best. It also stars Forrest Tucker. It was directed by Alan Dwan. Wayne plays Sgt. John M. Stryker, a tough Marine sergeant, who’s tasked with getting his company ready for battle in the Pacific theater.

The question is why does Hollywood attempt to remake a classic film? The answer could be another question. What came first, the chicken or the egg? This very slow moving film shows that if stars are in the movie, the script doesn’t matter. Bradley Cooper plays Jack, a fading country star. One night, after a

This is the story about Jim Corbett, the heavyweight boxing champion in the 1890’s. Errol Flynn is in the title role. His drinking buddy and costar in many films Alan Hale is in it, playing his father. The movie also stars Alexis Smith and Jack Carson. It was directed by Raoul Walsh. The film starts

This film stars Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe. This is the Hollywood treatment of the American Indian, who became one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. It was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film starts off with Pop Warner, played very well by Charles Bickford, speaking at a banquet, honoring Thorpe. The story

Humphrey Bogart stars along with Lizabeth Scott in this movie set in a small seaside town, called Gulf City. He plays an army captain, Warren (Rip) Murdock, an army paratrooper, who’s been ordered to find a sergeant, who went missing, before he was to receive The Congressional Medal of Honor. He finds out the sergeant,

This film stars Frank Sinatra as Major Bennett Marco, who was in command of a group of soldiers, in The Korean War, who were rescued by Sgt. Raymond Shaw, played by Laurence Harvey. Shaw because of his heroic actions, was awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor. The problem is that Major Marco, can’t recall the

Gregory Peck stars in this movie about Jimmy Ringo, a gunfighter, who has come into a town. While in town, a young man engages him in a gunfight. Needless to say, the young man comes out on the losing end. He leaves and rides on to the town of Cayenne, to see his estranged girlfriend,

This movie stars two film legends, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. It was based on a magazine story by the famous playwright, Arthur Miller. It was adapted into a screenplay, for his then wife, Marilyn Monroe, adding the character of Rosalyn Taber. In the film, Monroe is a newly divorced woman, who falls for an

Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp, in this film directed by John Ford. It is loosely based on the events leading up to The Gunfight at the OK Corral. Walter Brennan is Old Man Clanton, who heads up the family, who opposes Earp. Wyatt Earp is a man who just wants a part of the