The most memorable action sequence in Stagecoach comes near the end of the 1939 film. Shortly after the river crossing, the passengers expect a...
The Screen’s Greatest Horse Stuntman
read more
Western Movies
Slim Pickens
Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog...and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing legend William Randolph Hearst...
High Times in the Bitterroots
When the Bitterroot Mountains exploded in wildfires in 1910, Buffalo Soldiers from the 25th Infantry helped evacuate the town of Wallace, Idaho. The...
Rustled for Hollywood
In the 1950s, Universal Pictures hit on an absurd premise that would delight millions and make millions: the Francis the Talking Mule military...
The Son Rises on AMC
On April 8, a new series, The Son, will premiere on AMC. Starring Pierce Brosnan, the four-time James Bond who rode West in 2006’s Seraphim Falls,...
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO
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: 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...
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...