Eighty years ago, director John Ford and screenwriter Dudley Nichols combined their talents, and those of star character…
Tag: Western Movies
Hartley of the West A New England actress reflects on how she went to California and became a cowgirl.
“I knew that it was something special; Sam (Peckinpah) was terrific, everybody was terrific, especially Randolph S…
Clearing the Gunsmoke Prolific teleplay and screenplay writer Jim Byrnes is still writing 61 years after his first sale.
With 635 television episodes, 480 radio shows and five movies, no other series in any genre has equaled the longevity of…
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…
Kevin Costner The award-winning actor, director and producer reflects on Silverado, Yellowstone, his new Netflix series The Highwaymen, and on acting and his love of the western.
Back in 1989, when Life Magazine asked Hollywood legends like James Stewart, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland to pick …
Cowboy Pens Best Rodeo Movie Ever Made Jeb Rosebrook’s highly personal memoir of the writing and producing of the Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen movie Junior Bonner recounts the special relationship between the historic Arizona city and its residents in the summer of 1971.
Prescott, Arizona, has been a center of Cowboy Culture since 1888, when civic-minded merchants first posted cash prizes …
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…
Hollywood’s Six-gun Fakery “Movie magic” tricks saved time, training and production costs, helping filmmakers keep the action fast and furious.
If you’re an Old West gun buff, and enjoy Western flicks from the Golden Age of Hollywood films, roughly 1930 through th…
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…