The late playwright Sam Shepard is well known to Western fans for the laconic cowboy figures he played on the big screen…
Tag: Western Movies
Buffalo Bill in the Movies From the frontiersman himself to those who tried to fill his boots.
The first actor to play Buffalo Bill in the movies was the man who had perfected the role for over a quarter century on …
John Wayne: “Bigger Than Life”
One might assume John Wayne and William F. Cody had little in common besides their Iowa origins and international fame a…
The Legendary Ben Hall (Sponsored by Vega Baby)
Have you heard of the legendary Ben Hall? Follow the infamous bushranger and The Ben Hall Gang as they take on the Austr…
Two Tom Horns in Film
William Goldman may be best known to Western fans as the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Ten years later,…
I Killed John Wayne Bruce Dern recalls the experience of shooting down the beloved icon in The Cowboys.
Who would’ve guessed that, in the last decade of his life, a lung lost to cancer, John “Duke” Wayne would star in a doze…
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is considered a classic. The 1962 film—directed by Sam Peckinpah—starred Joel McRea as a washed u…
Charles Stevens
Charles Stevens was often cast as Native Americans or Mexicans in movies and television in a career that stretche…
Keeping Movies Alive The world’s greatest collection of Western posters finds an Arizona home.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was among the first. Dr. Rennard Strickland found the movie poster for the 1962 John Fo…
The Screen’s Greatest Horse Stuntman And the comment that kept famed Westerns Director John Ford from hiring him again.
The most memorable action sequence in Stagecoach comes near the end of the 1939 film. Shortly after the river crossing, …