A 60s actioner with good plot twists As we have recently been looking at the Westerns of Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster, I thought we migh...

A real talent for the genre As well as being a very ‘physical’ actor, and a versatile one who was not afraid to genre-hop, Burt Lancaster...

Huge but weak Since we are on a bit of a Spencer Tracy kick at the moment I thought we might have a look at his final contribution to our...

Stetson and six-gun weren't really for him Spencer Tracy, left, star of the likes of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg ...

Protowestern a bit of a plodder MGM rather missed the boat (or the stagecoach anyway) in 1939 when the big-budget adult Western suddenly ...

A pretty picture but pretty boring We were saying the other day (click here for that post) that surprisingly, perhaps, for a macho all-Am...

Not the brightest Western star in the Hollywood firmament You might think that an all-American gun-loving macho guy like Charlton Heston ...

A worthy contributor to our genre Gordon Douglas (left) was one of those directors who made a number of bread-and-butter pictures of no s...

Gimme that gold Gold of the Seven Saints falls into that category of gold-lust Westerns, with characters going crazy to get their hands o...

The mighty Quinn The Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn was a great, larger-than-life Rabelaisian figure who tended to dominate the scr...

Longtime director/producer of some good Westerns George Sherman (left) is credited with having worked on 84 feature Westerns, as well as ...

How the West was Fun Partly perhaps because Hollywood motion pictures tended to be made by showbiz people who had a natural affinity to t...

Space Western What is and is not a Western is the subject of endless debate but if you accept a broader definition of the genre then you ...

All livelinks are internal, i.e. they will take you to other posts on this blog, unless explicitly stated. Jacques the lad The French mov...

One of the most surprising casting choices by John Sturges and Yul Brynner for The Magnificent Seven in 1960 was that of Eli Wallach to p...

All livelinks are internal, i.e. they will take you to other posts on this blog, unless explicitly stated. Western tough-guy par excellen...

All livelinks are internal, i.e. they will take you to other posts on this blog, unless explicitly stated. Randy is at Lawrence The Stran...

Better than pulp Many Western and detective novels and short stories earned the derogative term pulp fiction. Pulp has rather a bad name....

Jesse James rides with Quantrill Westerns in the 1940s and 50s loved the characters of Frank and Jesse James, Jesse in particular. Ever s...

Quantrill in fact and fiction No picture of Quantrill is 100% authenticated but he may have looked like this A great deal has been writte...