A war between families comes to a head when a man is lynched in front of his wife (played by Michéle Mercier). Only an old beau (Robert Hossein)...
DVD Review: Cemetery Without Crosses
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Henry C. Parke
DVD Review: The Girl of the Golden West
In 1938, theatre impresario David Belasco’s melodrama became a delightful Western operetta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The only...
Struggling for a Dream
In the latter quarter of the 20th century, the only person indispensable to Western film was Clint Eastwood. Losing a Peckinpah or a Leone would...
Broken Lance
The spoiled first three sons—Richard Widmark, Hugh O’Brian and Earl Holliman— of Spencer Tracy’s cattleman character can’t abide their half-breed,...
A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
You know you’re in Texas when a pair of ski-masked men rob a crowded bank and nearly every customer pulls a gun and opens fire. The impromptu posse...
Ford Set the Bar High
The Buffalo Soldier and his crucial role in the post-Civil War West went unacknowledged for so long in history annals that his story was rarely told...
Sutherland’s Ride Together
This was a film that I’ve been dreaming of making for 30-some-odd years,” Kiefer Sutherland told the audience when Forsaken premiered at the Autry...
The Godfather of Westerns
With seven Emmys won, Lonesome Dove is unquestionably television’s most respected Western achievement. The roles were so good, the nominations of...
The Lonesome Dove Trail
Making the film should have been easy. Movies from Larry McMurtry’s novels—1963’s Hud and 1971’s The Last Picture Show—had already earned five...
Indie Westerns Lead the Way
After years on a starvation diet of barely one movie per year, Westerns fans face a feast of entertainment unseen since the early 1960s. While this...
Best of the West 2016: Western Movies DVDs & TV Shows
As this special issue honors the best pictures of cowboys, it certainly seems fitting that we also honor the best Cowboy Pictures, those movies that...
The Highest Peak
On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film rights to the character of Grizzly...