We run into John Wayne fans everywhere we go in this great nation of ours, and by New Year’s Day, after the holiday gifts have all been exchanged or...
True West’s Best Movies, TV Series & DVDs of 2012
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Henry Cabot Beck
John Wayne Film Collection
This new Duke collection features Red River, The Alamo, The Comancheros, The Horse Soldiers, The Undefeated, The Big Trail and North to Alaska,...
Heartwarming Gunslingers?
Randall Wallace has a love of strong, heroic and heartwarming stories. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of Braveheart, and...
Good for Nothing
Inge Rademeyer and Mike Wallis are a team and a couple; together they wrote and produced a completely original, extremely entertaining Western...
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
In the winter of 1862, robber Moroni Clawson tried to escape capture and ended up shot dead by a Salt Lake police officer. When Clawson’s grave was...
Maverick: The Complete First Season
A thinking man’s TV series, Maverick ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962. Brothers Bret and Bart Maverick aspired to live by their wits whenever they...
Preece’s Bad Guy Westsern
Michael Preece, who worked as a script supervisor in The Getaway and Breakheart Pass, and who directed many episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, is set...
Tom Cruise’s Magnificent Seven
Tom Cruise might jump-start a reboot of John Sturges’s 1960 The Magnificent Seven, though whether he has his eyes on the Steve McQueen role or the...
Dawn Rider
Dawn Rider has whiskers on its whiskers; the movie started life in 1931 as an Oater starring Tom Tyler, followed with a John Wayne remake in 1935,...
Jeremiah Johnson
What makes John “Liver-Eatin’” Johnson unique among Mountain Men is his long feud with the Crow Indians, which resulted in as many as 300 dead Crow...
Django Unchained Preview
A preview of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is now available on YouTube. The other big news is that Kurt Russell, who worked with Tarantino in...
Natalie Portman’s New Western
Jane Got a Gun will star producer and actress Natalie Portman, who recently won an Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. This story centers on...