westbloggerApr 126 minThe Westerns of Randolph Scott Randy rides lonesome We’ll come back soon to the great series of Westerns Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher made in the second half of...
westbloggerMar 314 minDecision at Sundown (Columbia, 1957)Another gripper Decision at Sundown, the third of the late-1950s Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher Westerns, a series of seven, was a little...
westbloggerMar 306 minThe Tall T (Columbia, 1957)Ultra-tense The Tall T was the second, after Seven Men from Now, which we reviewed recently (click the link for that) of the cycle of...
westbloggerMar 297 minSeven Men from Now (Warner Bros, 1956)1950s Westerns at their very best This picture started life in 1954 when Burt Kennedy, click the link to read our essay on him, pretty...
westbloggerMar 2811 minThe Westerns of Budd Boetticher Western maestro Prompted by reader Barry’s comment on The Tall T, I thought it might be time to re-examine that series of seven Westerns...
westbloggerMar 274 minThe Canadians (Fox, 1961)Dreary Burt Kennedy (1922 - 2001) about who we were talking yesterday (click the link for that), was certainly a major figure in our...
westbloggerMar 2615 minThe Westerns of Burt Kennedy“Burt Kennedy writes Broadway in Arizona.” (John Wayne) Burt Kennedy (1922 - 2001), pictured below, was certainly a major figure in our...
westbloggerMar 255 minHell's Hinges (Kay-Bee Pictures, 1916) A landmark Western movie We’ve been looking recently at the career of William S Hart, prototype Western star (click the link to read more...
westbloggerMar 242 minKnight of the Trail (Mutual Film, 1915)Two-Gun Bill rides again As we have been saying, many of the films of the great silent Western star William S Hart (click the link for...
westbloggerMar 234 minThe Bargain (Paramount, 1914)William S Hart's first feature Western The other day we were discussing the career of one of the big early stars of the Western genre,...
westbloggerMar 2211 minThe Westerns of William S Hart Two-Gun Bill William Surrey Hart (1864 – 1946) was the foremost Western star of the 1910s and early 20s. In fact in some ways he was the...
westbloggerMar 216 minThe Westerns of Yul BrynnerChris Though he liked strutting around in a Stetson, Yuly Borisovich Briner, or Юлий Борисович Бринер, better known to us as Yul Brynner,...
westbloggerMar 205 minApache Uprising (Paramount, 1965)The geezers return You probably know the story of AC Lyles (1918 – 2013), pictured left: he began at Paramount studios as an office boy...
westbloggerMar 1811 minThe Spoilers Novel, play and various versions on film The author In 1906 Rex Beach (1877 – 1949) published his novel The Spoilers, set in the Alaska...
westbloggerMar 178 minThe Westerns of Charles BronsonAlthough Charles Bronson was in little danger of winning an Oscar for the Westerns he was in, or indeed those Westerns of winning one for...
westbloggerMar 163 minThe Virginian (Nasser Group, North, 2014) The most recent screen The Virginian, and the worst It is inevitable that any great Western story will be remade in different versions as...
westbloggerMar 154 minThe Virginian (TNT, 2000) The second-best Virginian We’ve been looking lately at Owen Wister’s seminal 1902 novel The Virginian, and its various ‘picturizations’,...
westbloggerMar 144 minThe Virginian (Paramount, 1946) OK, I guess Much as I like Joel McCrea in Westerns, I have to say that his turn at being the Virginian was a bit of a disappointment. Not...
westbloggerMar 138 minThe Virginian (Paramount, 1929) The best version Following our recent posts on this blog on the novel The Virginian by Owen Wister, and the first two silent movie...
westbloggerMar 124 minThe Virginian (Preferred Pictures, 1923) Silent remake We’ve been looking at The Virginian, the novel by Owen Wister, and the first movie The Virginian, the Jesse Lasky/Cecil B...