April marked the 35th anniversary of CBS’s airing of Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. The now-classic Western television mov…
White Comanche (Warner Archive; $21.99)
We have all grabbed collections of public domain Westerns from the grocery store, which means some of us own a washed-o…
On the Trail of the American Buckaroo (McFarland, $45)
Jeremy Agnew has taken on a massive task in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, tracing not only th…
Westerns Directed by Gordon Douglas
Doolins of Oklahoma (Columbia, 1949): The first of Douglas’s two movies with Randolph Scott is an okay attempt to tell t…
The Auteur Who Walked the West Rediscovering the Westerns helmed by forgotten studio director Gordon Douglas.
They’re the studio men, the directors who took assignments, working on Comedies, Westerns, Musicals and Horrors. They di…
Bull Doggin’ Screenwriter reveals the original ending for The Honkers, a Western caught in a rare rodeo race.
When actor and director Steve Ihnat approached Stephen Lodge to work with him on a screenplay that eventually became The…
The Oklahoma Kid Warner Archive; $21.99
The mention of the amazing sight of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart snarling at each other from under 10 gallon hats, h…
A Million Ways to Laugh in the West Seth MacFarlane is hoping his summer movie stands tall beside classic Comedy Westerns.
When a trailer is posted on the Internet, keeping track of the views and “shares” is the perfect way for studios to judg…
A Wild Western Zine Looking back at a film mag from the counterculture 1960s that didn’t quite catch on with adult fans of Western movies and TV shows.
In the 1960s, James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland was such a runaway success, covering ol…
The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7 Warner Archive, $40.99
This B-Westerns set features nine movies with all transfers uniformly excellent. What do you think?…