westblogger20 hours ago4 minThe Professionals (Columbia, 1966)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...
westblogger4 days ago13 minThe Westerns of Burt LancasterA 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...
westblogger5 days ago5 minHow the West Was Won (MGM, 1962)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...
westblogger6 days ago8 minThe Westerns of Spencer TracyStetson 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 ...
westblogger7 days ago7 minNorthwest Passage: Book 1, Rogers’ Rangers (MGM, 1940)Protowestern a bit of a plodder MGM rather missed the boat (or the stagecoach anyway) in 1939 when the big-budget adult Western suddenly ...
westbloggerFeb 194 minThe Mountain Men (Columbia, 1980)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...
westbloggerFeb 188 minThe Westerns of Charlton HestonNot the brightest Western star in the Hollywood firmament You might think that an all-American gun-loving macho guy like Charlton Heston ...
westbloggerFeb 1613 minThe Westerns of Gordon DouglasA 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...
westbloggerFeb 154 minGold of the Seven Saints (Warner Bros, 1961)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...
westbloggerFeb 138 minThe Westerns of Anthony QuinnThe mighty Quinn The Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn was a great, larger-than-life Rabelaisian figure who tended to dominate the scr...
westbloggerFeb 1112 minThe Westerns of George ShermanLongtime director/producer of some good Westerns George Sherman (left) is credited with having worked on 84 feature Westerns, as well as ...
westbloggerFeb 94 minHeller in Pink Tights (Paramount, 1960)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...
westbloggerFeb 74 minFirefly/SerenitySpace 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 ...
westbloggerFeb 511 minThe Westerns of Jacques TourneurAll livelinks are internal, i.e. they will take you to other posts on this blog, unless explicitly stated. Jacques the lad The French mov...
westbloggerFeb 33 minThe Westerns of Eli WallachOne 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...
westbloggerFeb 18 minThe Westerns of Lee MarvinAll livelinks are internal, i.e. they will take you to other posts on this blog, unless explicitly stated. Western tough-guy par excellen...
westbloggerJan 306 minThe Stranger Wore a Gun (Columbia, 1953)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...
westbloggerJan 288 minWestern novels by Frank GruberBetter than pulp Many Western and detective novels and short stories earned the derogative term pulp fiction. Pulp has rather a bad name....
westbloggerJan 267 minKansas Raiders (Universal, 1950)Jesse James rides with Quantrill Westerns in the 1940s and 50s loved the characters of Frank and Jesse James, Jesse in particular. Ever s...
westbloggerJan 2419 minQuantrillQuantrill in fact and fiction No picture of Quantrill is 100% authenticated but he may have looked like this A great deal has been writte...