He did not wear a mask or carry silver bullets. The Virginian was designed to be the first Mystery man of Old West fiction. He did not wear a mask...
The Bad Boy Behind the Mystery Man
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Western Movies
A Dark Circus
Western these days don’t often open in the heart of the summer tentpole season; Appaloosa and 3:10 to Yuma, the two biggest Westerns of recent...
Heil Hitler Away! (English Version)
For those of you who may have wondered what book laid on the reading table next to Adolph Hitler’s bed, you might be surprised to learn it was...
Heil Hitler Away (German Version)
Johann Suter Reise Reichtum an Gold, um Verluste inspiriert die Nazi-Western Der Kaiser von Kalifornien. Für diejenigen unter Ihnen, die sich...
Fifty Years After The Alamo
Just how or why John Wayne first came upon the idea of making a movie about the Alamo is possibly the only mystery remaining in a movie that has...
The Man Who Would be Clint
When one tries to describe Clint Eastwood, it’s difficult to avoid hyperbole, even when stating the simple facts of the man, as an actor and as a...
How Hollywood Saved the Durango & Silverton
Everyone’s heard the iconic children’s tale about the “little engine that could.” But few realize a real-life version exists. Call it the “movie...
Yahsi Bati
Cem Yilmaz is a major celebrity in Turkey, where he writes and acts in comedies that are apparently similar to Mel Brooks’s. (His Science Fiction...
Sweetgrass
Sweetgrass, which opened in January at the Film Forum in New York, has gained universal praise as not only one of the finest new documentaries, but,...
Gunless
Canadian Paul Gross is an actor, director, songwriter, producer and screenwriter, but Americans will recognize him primarily as Darryl Van Horne in...
Laurie’s Wild West
Laurie Powers is a Los Angeles-based writer who has a deep interest in Westerns and Pulp Fiction, which makes sense since her grandfather was Paul...
On the Set of The Gundown
Gammons Gulch is not entirely real; movie sets generally aren’t, but this collection of buildings and props, encompassing a chunk of American myth...