F Troop was a cavalry comedy that lasted two seasons, 1965-67, and burrowed into the pop cultural cache of a generation who likened it to the...
F Troop
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The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West was a hit for boomer kids who came through the glut of TV Westerns in the late 1950s, only to stumble into puberty with James...
Cheyenne
Television Westerns crossed the line from adolescents to adults in September 1955, when Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne all...
Track Of The Cat
Duke’s company Batjac produced Track of the Cat (1954), which has been unavailable as a DVD until now. Like The High and the Mighty (1954), which...
Rawhide
The dogies kept a-rollin’. Eight seasons (1959-1966) of rollin’, actually, from San Antonio, Texas, to Sedalia, Kansas, in rain and wind and...
The Western Godfather
It didn't surprise me that Kurt Russell was willing to go off topic during our interview last April. After all, it was the end of the day and he was...
John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
The Duke is back. On March 13, 1956, The Searchers opened across America in all its VistaVision glory, and if you’d asked John Wayne back...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Critics who wallpapered The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with references to Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia missed the...
Wanted: Undead or Alive
A “cowboys ‘n’ zombies” comedy, Wanted: Undead or Alive is currently being filmed in New Mexico. James Denton (Desperate Housewives) and Chris...
Desperadoes
Author Ron Hansen already has Brad Pitt starring as Jesse James in the movie modeled after his 1983 book, but now his first novel, Desperadoes, is...
Redemption
The independent, shoestring-budget film Redemption is making its way through film festival circuits, much like Tom Shell’s Far Side of Jericho....