No doubt about it. Western movies were reborn in 1939, catapulting the genre into big-time Hollywood that lasted some 60 years. Stagecoach, Destry Rides Again, Jesse James, Dodge City are considered classics. But watch them again, and you will see something else these movies have in common. They stink. All right, maybe stink is a bit harsh. But these movies aren’t Red River, The Naked Spur or The Wild Bunch. Heck, they’re not even Station West, Silver Lode or Chisum. Stagecoach? Sure, the
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