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johnlink ranks TRUE GRIT (1969)
I very much want to see the Coen Brothers remake of this classic film, but I also wanted to see the original John Wayne flick before checking out the new one. I’m not a particularly huge John Wayne...
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johnlink ranks BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
This is a film I had literally never even heard a whisper about. But the description (A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret) piqued my interest....
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johnlink ranks CITY SLICKERS (1991)
Objectivity failure alert: I love this movie. Though I haven’t seen it in probably a decade, this was one of my favorite comedies of my early teen years. I must have watched this thing thirty to forty...
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johnlink ranks THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)
Back in 2005, as I was finishing up my undergrad degree, we almost watched this movie in one of my film classes. It ended up being outvoted (by quite a bit, frankly), but I went out and bought it...
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johnlink ranks TOM HORN (1980)
I got my Steve McQueen box set years ago because it had a bunch of movies which were either favorites, or things I really wanted to see. BULLITT, PAPILLON, THE GETAWAY, CINCINNATI KID, that kind of...
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johnlink ranks GO WEST (1925)
If you have visited this site with any frequency, you’ll know me to be a Buster Keaton fan. While not a silent movie scholar, I’ve seen enough to know that I’ll give anything with Keaton a run. Turner...
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johnlink ranks WINCHESTER ’73 (1950)
I usually don’t run out to see Westerns. I find them often to be cliched and similar. I suppose one could say that about most any genre, horror and thriller particularly, but the benefits of the...
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