When New Line pictures was folded into Warner Brothers recently, the fate of several films was left uncertain, including Appaloosa, which is based...
Runaway Horse Reined in
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The Phantom Empire
Gene Autry wasn’t completely green when he starred in the 12-chapter serial The Phantom Empire in 1935. He’d made a musical appearance in 1934’s In...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Vol. III
Indiana Jones may have been a professor and an archaeologist, but he always had the DNA of Western heroes. Guns, whips, horses, hats and the Yakima...
High Noon
Many regard High Noon as one of the supremely significant moments in American film, especially as it relates to the players, and the politics, of...
Oh, the Horror!
Director Neil Marshall (The Descent) has been talking about filming a Western, Sacrilege, which he describes as “Unforgiven, by way of H.P....
Billy the Brit
Liverpool native Frederick W. Nolan is not only one of the world’s foremost scholars on the American West—in fact he cofounded the English...
Mongolian Clint
By the time you read this, South Korean filmmaker Ji-woon Kim’s Mongolian-Steppes Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird will have been...
The Westerner/Man of the West
Although Walter Brennan won his third of three supporting actor Oscars—still the record—for his part as the “mangy old scorpion” Judge Roy Bean in...
Young Wayne Blazed a Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) succeeded in recreating, from the widest vistas to the smallest details, the saga of those men, women and children who crossed...
Wild West History Sleuths
The History Detectives’ upcoming season features several episodes of interest to readers of True West. The June 30, 2008, show (and these are...
The Top 10 Western DVD Collections
Western lovers who think of themselves as the last of a dying breed have to be feeling a little less lonely these days, as there are so many...
Iron Man Plays Gunslinger?
Word is out that Robert Downey Jr., fresh from his success as Tony Stark in the summer blockbuster Iron Man, may be cast in the Brian Grazer/Ron...