Look out Western fans. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are riding back into motion pictures. NBC—in association with Viacom and Once Upon A Time...
The Legend Continues
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Western Movies
Re-enactors Bring Realism to Movies
GODS AND GENERALS More than 7,500 re-enactors brought the Civil War to life in Gods and Generals, released on February 21, 2003. Director, producer...
John Wayne’s 10 Best Westerns
Stagecoach (1939)—John Wayne plays the Ringo Kid, who escapes from prison to...
James Drury, Alias The Virginian
When Owen Wister published The Virginian in 1902, he created the quintessential fictional Western hero (more than 60 years before Clint Eastwood...
Wes Studi
Santa Fe and Hollywood are a long way from Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, but Cherokee actor Wes Studi has found a home in all three worlds. Many critics...
The Hole-In-The-Wall Nickelodeon
The Hole-in-the-Wall filmography includes the original, the prequels, the sequels and the non sequiturs. •Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969):...
Frontier House
Could a 21st-century family survive in 1883 Montana? That’s the question PBS tried to answer in its excellent six-hour Frontier House, a WNET...
He’s Hung Up His Gun and Badge but James Arness is Still the Marshal
Since 1955, he has towered above all Western lawmen—at least those on television. That’s not just because James Arness, better known as Marshal...
King of Texas
In the new TNT Western movie King of Texas, rancher John Lear has an ego about as big as the newly formed Republic of Texas. He tells his three...
The Alamo In the Movies
To say that Alamo movies are historically inaccurate is a bit like saying that Godzilla is a tad green and scaly. Most filmmakers couldn’t care less...
MERLIN FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF ‘JERICHO’ and the distribution walls don’t come tumblin’ down
This year’s American Outlaws turned out to be as big a blunder as the James-Younger gang’s Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery. The film’s wretched...
Real To Reel
It’s possible that Doc Holliday never made a house call, yet there are few Americans who don’t know him. In fact, it’s doubtful that anyone since...