When then-Director Kevin Jarre first spoke to Val Kilmer about the gun-twirling, cup-spinning scene in 1993’s Tombstone,…
Tag: Western Movies
Hostiles is Deeply Felt This Western didn’t get an Oscar nod, but has gotten the attention of critics and movie fans.
Hostiles is a deeply felt story, peopled by soldiers, American Indians and civilians who express their feelings with utm…
DVD Review: Barquero Review of Gordon Douglas's Barquero
For a Few Dollars More and The Wild Bunch propelled former bit players Lee Van Cleef and Warren Oates to Western movie s…
Objections Overruled! John Wayne didn’t want Kim Darby in True Grit.
Kim Darby made her mark in the 1969 version of True Grit. She was not an obvious choice for the lead of Mattie Ross, wh…
O’Brien at the Movies The actor made his mark in two big Westerns.
Edmond O’Brien is probably best known for his roles in a number of film noir movies and television shows. But he made a…
John Ford and Harry Goulding Harry Goulding, proprietor of Goulding’s trading post on the Arizona-Utah border had a brilliant idea to help the economy.
The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression. Harry Goulding, proprietor of Gouldin…
Those Old B-Westerns Everyone has their own special memories of going to the movies in the days before television when a bag of popcorn cost a dime and a coke cost a nickel.
Someone asked me the other day what it was like watching those B-Western movies in those little, cracker box theaters du…
DVD Review: Painted Woman Review of James Cotten's Painted Woman.
Painted Woman (Echo Bridge; $15.99). After experiencing both the security and shame of a kept woman, Julie (played by St…
The Nation’s Worst Single Lynching A bloody Chinese massacre finds a new audience through The Jade Pendant.
You might guess that the worst single lynching in U.S. history took place in the Deep South and that the victims were bl…
The Dreaded Buscadero Sinks Costner’s Wyatt Earp
If one thing will ding a contender for the title of a historically accurate Western, it’s the dreaded buscadero. Purists…