Charles Marquis Warren took his Westerns seriously—he created Rawhide and directed the first Gunsmoke. He cared about his Westerns, if Little Big...
Western Film Noir Vol. 1
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DVD Reviews
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...
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...
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West was a hit for boomer kids who came through the glut of TV Westerns in the late 1950s, only to stumble into puberty with James...
Cheyenne
Television Westerns crossed the line from adolescents to adults in September 1955, when Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne all...
Track Of The Cat
Duke’s company Batjac produced Track of the Cat (1954), which has been unavailable as a DVD until now. Like The High and the Mighty (1954), which...
Rawhide
The dogies kept a-rollin’. Eight seasons (1959-1966) of rollin’, actually, from San Antonio, Texas, to Sedalia, Kansas, in rain and wind and...
John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection
The Duke is back. On March 13, 1956, The Searchers opened across America in all its VistaVision glory, and if you’d asked John Wayne back...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Two-Disc Collector’s Edition
George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Critics who wallpapered The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with references to Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia missed the...