DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO (Kino Lorber; $29.95) In this Blu-ray release of the 1940 classic, Tyrone Power stars as Diego, outwardly the effete...
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO
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Henry C. Parke
Sink or Swim
Nobody could overstate the impact of 1939’s Stagecoach on film in general and on the Western in particular. It rescued the genre from the...
DVD Review: One-Eyed Jacks
After languishing in unwatchable 99-cent copies, 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks (Criterion Collection; $29.95), the last Vista Vision movie, has been...
Frontier Justice For Sale
For nearly 40 years, film distributors and filmmakers from around the world have annually converged in Santa Monica, California, to buy and...
A Divided America
The story of the Underground Railroad, the antebellum, sub-rosa conspiracy to lead escaped slaves from Southern plantations to freedom in the North,...
Remembering The Horse Soldiers
Lovely Constance Towers became a star when she played the female lead in two John Ford Westerns back-to-back: 1959’s The Horse Soldiers and 1960’s...
Best of the West 2017: Western Movies, DVDs and TV Shows
For all of the pathfinders’ importance in the settling of the West, the films about those great pioneers comprise a short list indeed. The best...
Hollywood’s Texas Ranger
Hell or High Water is the sleeper movie hit of the summer; Jeff Bridges’ portrayal of Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton might nab him a second Oscar....
DVD REVIEW: Traveltalks
Nothing whisks a person away from his troubles more than a color-drenched visit to the far corners of the nation and the globe. During the Great...
Westworld Reborn
When, in 1973, MGM, once the titan of Hollywood studios, found itself on the ropes after a string of flops, a tiny film saved the studio from...
The Life and Legend of Hugh O’Brian
One role defined Hugh O’Brian’s acting career—the title character in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The adult Western premiered on ABC on...
Less than Magnificent
Remaking a classic movie is daring, and Director Antoine Fuqua made the challenge a double dare by remaking two: 1960’s The Magnificent Seven and...