Howard Hawks once said in an interview that he often visited fellow director John Ford as Ford neared the end of his life. He told the writer that...
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Western Movies
Gunsmoke: The Director’s Collection
Serious Gunsmoke fans have been grousing about the curious way the show has been made available on DVD. Diehards think that the series, all 20 years...
Guns of Vengance Trail
Coming from the armories of film studios, including 20th Century Fox, Stembridge Gun Rentals, RKO and MGM, all of which sold their firearms...
The Clark Gable Collection: The Tall Men
Hollywood director Fritz Lang once remarked that Cinemascope was only good for snakes and funerals. Perhaps today he would have included snakes on a...
Broken Trail
Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem a tad presumptuous for the makers of this Western to already be referring to it as legendary? I expect they...
Western Film Noir Vol. 1
Charles Marquis Warren took his Westerns seriously—he created Rawhide and directed the first Gunsmoke. He cared about his Westerns, if Little Big...
Books to Film
The Great Train Robbery (1903) started it all. Not only was it the first narrative film ever made, but it was a Western and one based on an 1896...
The Adventures Of Brisco County, Jr.
Brisco County was a genuinely odd Western comedy that ran from 1993-94. It starred Bruce Campbell who was already something of a cult star based on...
James Stewart: The Signature Collection
To the German-born Anthony Mann, the postwar Stewart must have seemed like the absolute physical embodiment of expressionism, all angles and angst...
Will Rogers Collection
When Will Rogers died in an airplane crash in 1935, America was devastated. The folksy rider, roper and vaudevillian from Oklahoma was the real New...
The Cup-Spinning Scene: How Did They Do It?
The cup-spinning scene in 1993’s Tombstone is still a favorite among Western movie aficionados. When Johnny Ringo shows up at the gaming tables, a...
F Troop
F Troop was a cavalry comedy that lasted two seasons, 1965-67, and burrowed into the pop cultural cache of a generation who likened it to the...