“Sluice robber!” With that bellow, and a well-aimed shot, Frenchy (Karl Malden) and a Montana boomtown mob take after th…
Sitting Bull’s Gal Was Caroline Weldon a heroine or the Victorian “Hanoi Jane?”
The primary job of the biographical Western Woman Walks Ahead, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes and Sam Rockw…
DVD Review: Black Jack & The Belle Starr Story These films pack a punch!
There is no honor among thieves in the first Oater, 1968’s Black Jack, shot in Spain and Israel. After a fight over a ro…
Still Blasting Away The Rifleman turns 60 years old.
Six decades ago this September 30, a Western series premiered, starring a ballplayer-turned-actor and a one-season Mouse…
Junior Bonner Review of Jeb Rosebrook's Junior Bonner.
While most “making of” books are works of reverse engineering by outsiders, full of flawed guesswork, Junior Bonner, the…
A Bad Bad Man Lou Diamond Phillips nods to Jack Palance and Charles Bronson in his Big Kill role.
Scott Martin has been cautiously optimistic about the future of Western films: “Until this resurgence, there hasn’t been…
DVD Review: The Durango Kid Collection Unseen for decades, a set of 10 exuberant Durango Kid adventures, from pristine prints, is now available.
From 1945 to 1952, Charles Starrett played undercover hero the Durango Kid in 65 hugely popular Columbia Pictures B-Wes…
One Proud Hostile A conversation with Wes Studi, fresh off his blockbuster portrayal of Chief Yellow Hawk and marking the 25th anniversary of his role as Geronimo.
Wes Studi, fresh from the success of Hostiles, appeared on the 2018 Oscars to present a movie montage highlighting milit…
Convinced by Gold Henry Fonda, Norman Lear, and The Deputy.
When, in 1959, one of America’s most popular and respected actors, Henry Fonda, announced that he would be starring in a…
Dead Men Tell Tales A web series aimed at the younger generation gets transformed into a movie.
Walmart shoppers grabbing a DVD of the new Vision Films Western Dead Men, directed by Royston Innes, starring Ric Maddox…