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Tag: western films
The Searchers Merits of the film and the facts behind it.
A question came in recently from a True West reader about the premise of Alan Le May’s great novel, The Searchers, the s…
Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch Despite the terrible loss to movie and television history, local agencies and studios have pledged to rebuild.
The cost in human life and property from the fires that blazed through California in November 2018 cannot yet be calcula…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Coen Brothers latest film celebrates the Western with their famous brand of dark humor.
The new Netflix Western anthology film from Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is the best Western comed…
Best of the West 2019: Western Movies The Future is Female? In Westerns, the future is here!
Ever since The Virginian, Owen Wister’s genre-defining Western novel, female characters have traditionally been portraye…
More than Animal House Before his memorable role as Otter the ladies man, Tim Matheson launched his career in Westerns.
Despite 183 acting credits, two Emmy nominations and no signs of slowing down, the suave and funny actor Tim Matheson w…
DVD Review: Dawson City Duo A perfect pairing: two movies set in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City!
Those Redheads from Seattle (Kino Lorber; $19.95); Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber; $29.95 and pictured above). A …
DVD Review: The Hanging Tree
“Sluice robber!” With that bellow, and a well-aimed shot, Frenchy (Karl Malden) and a Montana boomtown mob take after th…
Sitting Bull’s Gal Was Caroline Weldon a heroine or the Victorian “Hanoi Jane?”
The primary job of the biographical Western Woman Walks Ahead, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes and Sam Rockw…
DVD Review: Black Jack & The Belle Starr Story These films pack a punch!
There is no honor among thieves in the first Oater, 1968’s Black Jack, shot in Spain and Israel. After a fight over a ro…