Lee Hayden (played by Sam Elliott), once a Western movie icon, now uses his golden voice to narrate barbecue-sauce ads. …
The Screen’s Greatest Horse Stuntman And the comment that kept famed Westerns Director John Ford from hiring him again.
The most memorable action sequence in Stagecoach comes near the end of the 1939 film. Shortly after the river crossing, …
Slim Pickens A real cowboy who captured the hearts of America.
Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog…and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing …
Rustled for Hollywood The never-before-published truth behind Francis the Talking Mule.
In the 1950s, Universal Pictures hit on an absurd premise that would delight millions and make millions: the Francis the…
The Son Rises on AMC A calculating pioneer patriarch shifts his family fortune from steers to crude in AMC’s newest Western.
On April 8, a new series, The Son, will premiere on AMC. Starring Pierce Brosnan, the four-time James Bond who rode West…
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO Kino Lorber, $29.95
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO (Kino Lorber; $29.95) In this Blu-ray release of the 1940 classic, Tyrone Power stars as …
Sink or Swim When shooting a movie scene becomes deadly. Stagecoach, 1939.
Nobody could overstate the impact of 1939’s Stagecoach on film in general and on the Western in particular. It rescued t…
DVD Review: One-Eyed Jacks
After languishing in unwatchable 99-cent copies, 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks (Criterion Collection; $29.95), the last Vista V…
Frontier Justice For Sale Stalking the elusive Western at the American Film Market.
For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Moni…
A Divided America Underground re-creates the struggle for freedom in the antebellum South.
The story of the Underground Railroad, the antebellum, sub-rosa conspiracy to lead escaped slaves from Southern plantati…