Turner Classic Movies is going to celebrate Roy Rogers’ 100th birthday this year as part of its annual Classic Film Festival. The restored prints of...
Roy Rogers’ Birthday Gifts
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Legends: John Ford
Turner Classic Movies has released a two-disc, four-movie collection of John Ford films. The collection features 1949’s She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,...
Gunsmoke: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2
By early 1959, when these episodes of the number one show on TV aired, all three networks were loading their prime-time slots with Westerns that...
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Clint?
Clint Walker never really made sense; he was six feet, six inches tall and made average men look and feel like Mickey Rooney standing next to him....
Quanah Parker Looks Promising
Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry and his writing partner Diana Ossana have their plates full with a number of new Western-themed movies in the...
Hart Ranch Reopens
After he finished what would be his last, and one of his best films, Tumbleweeds, in 1925, William S. Hart bought the land where the picture was...
Mangold’s Texas Ranger
James Mangold didn’t get quite as much attention as the Coen brothers when he retooled the black-and-white Western 3:10 to Yuma. But his ambitious...
True Grit
Fans of the original version of True Grit may be divided in their opinions about the remake, but we all have the Coen brothers to thank for...
Robert Conrad Dares Ya
Robert Conrad is tough. He might even be tougher than James West, the rough-and-ready secret agent he played on television in the CBS series The...
John Wayne’s Wild West
A two-page photo spread in this handsome volume goes a long way toward explaining this book. Pages 26 and 27 illustrate that wonderful moment in...
Dances With Wolves: 20th Anniversary
When the two-disc Blu-ray edition of Dances With Wolves is released on January 11, the DVD will have missed the movie’s 20th anniversary by only a...
Red Hill
When Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten) signs up as the constable in the sleepy outback town of Red Hill,he misplaces his handgun on his first day—never a...