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The Best of the West: Western Movies
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Henry C. Parke
True Grit’s 50th Anniversary
John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Paramount film culminated the greatest year in Western film history.
Born to the West
Robert Carradine reflects on his career in Westerns and his family’s rich legacy in Hollywood.
Franco Nero
The once and future “Django” is still a star 55 years after being cast in his first Western role.
Stagecoach – The Legend At 80
John Ford and John Wayne’s classic Western film changed the course of cinema history.
Butch & Sundance & Pike & Dutch
How two films from the summer of ’69 changed westerns forever.
Hartley of the West
"I knew that it was something special; Sam (Peckinpah) was terrific, everybody was terrific, especially Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea—who I’d never...
Deadwood Déjà Vu
"It’s Doc Cochran’s office—I’m sure of it! And there’s the Bella Union!” Over a decade after HBO’s Deadwood had left the air, fans attending the...
Clearing the Gunsmoke
With 635 television episodes, 480 radio shows and five movies, no other series in any genre has equaled the longevity of Gunsmoke. And to fans who...
Kevin Costner
Back in 1989, when Life Magazine asked Hollywood legends like James Stewart, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland to pick their favorite young stars...
Rescued From Oblivion— The Forsaken Westerns
A Western TV fan stumbling upon the Forsaken Westerns Channel on YouTube might well conclude that they’d entered an alternative universe. Here, Fess...
Morgan Woodward
Actor Morgan Woodward is known for many things, most of them unpleasant: he’s so good at playing bad that, “although it was an unwritten law that no...