The production of The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) offers a great deal of history, not the least of which is the moment when the world met Gary...
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Half or more of the fun in watching this 1979 TV special is seeing the actors entering the set—a Western saloon, of course, on some Hollywood...
DEADWOOD: The complete Third Season
Like The Winning of Barbara Worth, Deadwood tells the story of a community on the edge of the world, a couple of bad breaks away from extinction, in...
A Girl is a Gun
Like most French film directors associated with the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, Luc Moullet adored the American “primitives,” directors like Sam...
Seraphim Falls
While Seraphim Falls has all the trappings of a traditional Western, at heart, it’s a metaphoric chase picture, more Les Miserables than Last Train...
Rio Bravo Still Sings
Some Westerns grow in stature, like The Searchers (1956), while others stay comfortably familiar, like The Magnificent Seven (1960). Some films...
Rio Bravo Still Sings
Some Westerns grow in stature, like The Searchers (1956), while others stay comfortably familiar, like The Magnificent Seven (1960). Some films...
A Girl is a Gun
Like most French film directors associated with the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, Luc Moullet adored the American “primitives,” directors like Sam...
Seraphim Falls
While Seraphim Falls has all the trappings of a traditional Western, at heart, it’s a metaphoric chase picture, more Les Miserables than Last Train...
Month of Atonement
This must be the month of atonement because culpability for ancient and unaddressed sins is the overriding theme of the summer, on TV and in the...
The Guns of Billy the Kid
Judging by the various advertisements in this magazine, it doesn’t seem likely that True West’s readers would object to a modest documentary on the...
OUTRIDE THE DEVIL: A MORNING WITH DOC HOLLIDAY
Those who have come to know Doc Holliday take him pretty seriously. It might be said that Holliday’s stock and measure has risen to the degree that...