Rip-roaring It’s curious in a way how few actual biopics there have been of George Armstrong Custer, who is, after all, a major figure of...

Not top drawer The next screen Custer (see here for the silent ones and here for the early talkie Custers) emerged in 1940. Errol Flynn...

He speaks The first talkie Custer to appear was in an RKO serial, The Last Frontier (1932), starring Lon Chaney Jr, as Tom Kirby, aka The...

Silent Custer After Francis Ford’s Custer’s Last Fight in 1912 (click the link for our review), there was a comedy two years later,...

Your turn, Autie Which painting, or its reproduction anyway, has been viewed, commented on and discussed heatedly by more people in the...

Today we’re going to transition out of our Jesse James obsession (JAW has become quite Jesseholic) by looking at a ‘sort-of’ James boys...

All-American hero In his excellent 2002 biography Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, TJ Stiles gives his last chapter, in which he...

There are just a couple more Jesse James movies to review (until another comes along). It won’t take long, because they were both pretty...

The Western as art film After no big-screen Westerns about Jesse James at all in the 1990s, we have already had three in this century....

Jim: Is that bad? Frank: Very. In the last quarter of the twentieth century big-screen Westerns featuring Jesse James, which had been so...

We played a rough game... and we lost. I’ve always been a fan of director, screenwriter, and producer Walter Hill. After all, he said in...

Cole's the boss It was inevitable, once the 1970s dawned, that revisionism would have a go at Jesse James. After all, pictures like...

Tarantino isn’t just walking down memory lane; he’s strutting (Barbara Scharres) Although, having said that, he was only six in 1969. The...

Made-for-TV Jesse We’ve looked at Jesse James on the big screen and Jesse on the small one. But in addition to appearances on various...

Jesse now rides across the small screen As we have seen, the Missouri outlaw Jesse James, sometimes with and sometimes without his...

"While you finish preparing, I shall activate the artificial brain." When you hear Dr Maria Frankenstein say that, you will probably want...

Jesse not a saint for once In 1960 Fox was back yet again with a Jesse James movie. This one was not a major A-picture, as its 1939 Jesse...

Watch it for Tommy Lee A brief pause from Jesse James (phew, I hear you exclaim) to look at a recent offering. Available now on Netflix...

Jesse is a two-gun womanizing rogue The first quarter of an hour of this one shows us Milton Farnsworth (Bob Hope) in NYC as a...

Not bad After a spate of early- and mid-1950s Westerns about the James brothers, over which we have recently mused on this blog,...