Howard Hawks once said in an interview that he often visited fellow director John Ford as Ford neared the end of his life. He told the writer that...
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Henry Cabot Beck
Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection
The Last Sunset (1961), a typically curious Robert Aldrich film, features the talents of the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo and Kirk Douglas. It’s...
Rock Hudson Screen Legend Collection
The Last Sunset (1961), a typically curious Robert Aldrich film, features the talents of the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo and Kirk Douglas. It’s...
Legendary Outlaws
Howard Hawks once said in an interview that he often visited fellow director John Ford as Ford neared the end of his life. He told the writer that...
Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection
Serious Gunsmoke fans have been grousing about the curious way the show has been made available on DVD. Diehards think that the series, all 20 years...
Screamin’ Sheb
When former Sen. Fred Thompson took the floor of Congress in October 2002 and declared Sheb Wooley to be an official “American treasure,” Wooley was...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Western Film Noir Vol. 1
Charles Marquis Warren took his Westerns seriously—he created Rawhide and directed the first Gunsmoke. He cared about his Westerns, if Little Big...
The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr.
Brisco County was a genuinely odd Western comedy that ran from 1993-94. It starred Bruce Campbell who was already something of a cult star based on...
James Stewart: The Signature Collection
To the German-born Anthony Mann, the postwar Stewart must have seemed like the absolute physical embodiment of expressionism, all angles and angst...
Will Rogers Collection
When Will Rogers died in an airplane crash in 1935, America was devastated. The folksy rider, roper and vaudevillian from Oklahoma was the real New...