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 Originally posted on 10/26/11   It's not every day you get to watch a 1930 blockbuster movie in widescreen, with enough sheer spectacle...

Lone Star studios hated to waste footage... ...so failed stunts were worked into the action whenever possible. Here's an exciting ...

Just about any story of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the OK Corral must feature "The Walk." "My Darling Clementine...

Western legend William S. Hart plays a heroic yet humble wagon train leader. The people and animals are consumed with thirst, the nea...

  "Tombstone" is pretty much the perfect Western...right? Well, maybe and maybe not. Because after much extensive research and dev...

 Originally posted on 5/12/18   In 1968, the same year Italian director Sergio Leone unleashed his western masterpiece ONCE UPON A TIME ...

Originally posted on 11/30/17 Pickup trucks were a pretty rare sight back in the 1860s. But we get a quick glimpse of one off in the dist...

*(And Howard Hawks and William Beaudine) Cuban actress Estelita Rodriguez appeared with John Wayne in Howard Hawks' "Rio Bra...

For half-breed twins Johnny Moon and Notah (William Shatner)... ...mortal enemies in a clash of good against evil... ...the time has co...

  Originally posted on 3/12/13   The Battle of Isandlwana is known as history's worst defeat of a "modern" army by native for...

(This is part three of my look at the "Don Knotts Reluctant Hero Pack", a two-sided DVD containing four of Don's best-known...

  Originally posted on 8/14/12   I was expecting the usual comic-book-level sword 'n' sandal yarn with DAMON AND PYTHIAS (1962), b...

  Originally posted on 12/13/16   First things first--there's this Best Picture-winning classic from 1959 called BEN-HUR, and any rem...

It's one of the great westerns of all time...with two great modern vehicle bloopers. The first one has been erased from the movie...

Right around the one-hour mark in John Ford's western cavalry classic "Fort Apache" (1948)... ...the camera pans right al...

John Wayne as "Singin' Sandy"? Here are some of the attempts by various movie studios in the 30s to turn John Wayne int...

  Originally posted on 10/31/16   There are really great westerns and there are really awful westerns.  And in the very middle between th...

  (Originally posted on 5/10/16)   One of the recent spate of big screen horse operas, TRADED (2016) isn't a sweeping spectacle, nor...

Outlaws kidnap Roy Rogers' prized horse Trigger for ransom.  But Trigger proves to be quite a handful. Especially for the "d...

Captain Woodrow F. Call (Tommy Lee Jones) refuses to admit... ...that young orphan Newt (Ricky Schroder) may be his illegitimate son. B...