April marked the 35th anniversary of CBS’s airing of Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. The now-classic Western television movie set ratings records, had...
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On the Trail of the American Buckaroo
Jeremy Agnew has taken on a massive task in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, tracing not only the origins of the cowboy/hero...
White Comanche
We have all grabbed collections of public domain Westerns from the grocery store, which means some of us own a washed-out copy of 1968’s White...
The Auteur Who Walked the West
They’re the studio men, the directors who took assignments, working on Comedies, Westerns, Musicals and Horrors. They directed top stars, the...
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 the true story of...
Bull Doggin’
When actor and director Steve Ihnat approached Stephen Lodge to work with him on a screenplay that eventually became The Honkers, Lodge had no idea...
The Oklahoma Kid
The mention of the amazing sight of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart snarling at each other from under 10 gallon hats, holding six-shooters usually...
A Million Ways to Laugh in the West
When a trailer is posted on the Internet, keeping track of the views and “shares” is the perfect way for studios to judge which films will hit...or...
A Wild Western Zine
In the 1960s, James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland was such a runaway success, covering old and new Horror movies, the...
The Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7
This B-Westerns set features nine movies with all transfers uniformly excellent. In Lambert Hillyer’s Trigger Fingers, Johnny Mack Brown hunts down...
SUGARFOOT (SEASON ONE)
When Director Michael Curtiz was shooting 1954’s The Boy from Oklahoma, he probably never imagined this easygoing vehicle for Will Rogers Jr. would...
The Duke: A Legendary Life
John Wayne liked J.R.R. Tolkien. That’s a fact in Scott Eyman’s new biography John Wayne: The Life and Legend. Where other biographers have...