Tag: Jeff Alexander

BR: Kid Galahad (1962)

BR: Kid Galahad (1962)

September 5, 2017 | By

Kid Galahad was billed quite loudly in the campaign posters as a musical, but similar to Follow That Dream (1962), you feel undercurrents pulling him towards differing material that with any other screen performer might clash and contradict, but Elvis had such a magnetic, likeable screen persona…

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BR: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

BR: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

April 26, 2016 | By

Burt Kennedy’s specialty was the western genre, having written scripts for the TV series Lawman, and directing Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966), the first of four sequels in United Artists’ popular franchise, but it’s perhaps his grasp of western tropes that made him the perfect director for Support Your Local Sheriff! – a western spoof written by William Bowers which predated Mel Brooks’ better-known Blazing Saddles…

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Film: Ransom! (1956)

Film: Ransom! (1956)

February 18, 2013 | By

Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / P to R . Film: Excellent/ DVD Transfer:  n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Crime / Suspense / Kidnapping Synopsis: A wealthy father gambles the life of his kidnapped son by refusing to pay the massive ransom. Special Features:  n/a . . […]

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