Pretty well done   As Jeff Shaara, author of the enjoyable The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt, says in a conversation with

  A tidy little oater with a slightly unusual plot   Like our last review, Montana Territory, this picture was a mid-budget 1950s Columbia second

  Plummer and the vigilantes   Montana Territory was a one-hour Columbia Western shot up at the Iverson Ranch with a modest budget but was

  More spaghetti?   Not for me, thanks. I’ve had enough.   There’s a generation of people who were teenagers or young adults in the

  We’ll review it anyway   Jeff Arnold’s West is not really the place to review The Red Pony at all because a Western it

  Sam is Bill   Continuing our Sam Elliott thread for a moment, after our post on 1883, in 1999 TNT screened a picture Elliott

  Westward the women   Continuing our current thread of wagon-train Westerns, today we’ll look at a recent contribution to the sub-genre, the 2010 feature

  A decent enough wagon-train Western   Last time, reviewing 1883, I said that wagon-train Westerns were among the most common type, and all through

  We’ve kinda seen it all before   Americans do so love the ‘family saga’. Long tales of the adventures of different generations of a

  Doggone it   We shall now pause (or dare I say paws) in our study of the Westerns of our favorite actors (see under

  Often laughably bad   On the ‘bonus’ part of the Sidonis Calysta DVD of When the Redskins Rode, Patrick Brion, waffling even more than

  Billy rides again   Last year Epix, the premium cable and satellite television network owned by MGM+, joined the throng of those who since

  A Dern good movie   Harry Tracy is said by some (though without evidence) to have been the last member of the Wild Bunch.

  Quentin on the Western   Quentin Tarantino is a movie-buff’s movie buff, in fact the buffest buff I know of. His passion for film

  Willie’s first Western   The first lustrum of the 1980s was a wasteland for the Western movie, Cimino’s monumental flop Heaven’s Gate having almost

  The Gambler gets ruthless   There is a whole sub-genre of country-singer Westerns, featuring among others Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt

  The original Hopalong Cassidy   Clarence Mulford (1883 – 1956) is best remembered for his Hopalong Cassidy character, which he created in 1904 with

  Give Jim Warren a try   As we were saying when talking recently about the Westerns made by RKO (click the link for those

  Not to be dismissed   Livelinks will take you to our articles on those people or movies.   Only three months after the release

  Interesting chap   Writer and producer Robert Buckner was born in Virginia and would die in Mexico but in between he wandered far and

  Pretty trashy   When we were looking the other day at the 1950s Westerns that Paramount put out (click the link for that) I

  He made some pretty good oaters   Film titles with live links will take you to our reviews of those pictures.   Nat Holt

  Ho-hum   A Bullet is Waiting is a movie that hovers on the edges of the Western genre. It stars Stephen McNally as a

  He made a Small fortune   Edward Small had a long history in the movie business, ‘presenting’ his first film, a First National silent,

  Mouse Pass   I think I’ve been guilty of neglecting Dennis Morgan on this blog. I only talked of him when he was Cole

  Monogram gets delusions of grandeur   The last of the studios were are examining in this current series (you can catch our other articles,

  From Cimarron to The Big Sky   RKO had been one of the major Hollywood studios but after eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes took control

  Slow starters, UA came good   The history of United Artists is long and complex, with many different ownership structures over the years, many

  They liked the Western   Republic may be thought of as one of the ‘lesser’ studios but it certainly favored the Western, like Columbia

  Harry Cohn liked an oater   Columbia, like Universal, rather specialized in the Western.     In 1953, one of our sample years, the

  Uncle Carl   Universal was another outfit that favored the Western – and had done from the start.     The heyday   1953,

  Warner Westerns We’re looking at different studios’ contributions to our noble genre. In 1953, as an example, Warner Bros released 28 pictures, six of

  Tom Mix and John Ford   In 1953 Fox released 37 films, three of which, c 8%, were Westerns, The Silver Whip, Powder River

  The oater wasn’t always paramount     Continuing our look at the different studios’ Westerns, concentrating on the early 1950s, Paramount put out 25

  The studios and the Western   We’ve looked, in our The Westerns of… series, at the series of oaters made by many directors, producers,

  Pretty good   We’ve been looking at the Western career of Forrest Tucker (click the link for our Forrestscape). California Passage dates from his

  A great Western bad guy   Many people will think first of Forrest Tucker as Sergeant Morgan O’Rourke in ABC’s md-60s Western sitcom F

  Anti-Shane   For most of the history of the Western movie, the range war has been a central theme. Big ranchers using thousands of

  The Rangers are the good guys (again)   Today we’ll continue our current mini-season of Wild Bill Elliott oaters with a picture similar in

  Bill Elliott rides again   I like a Wild Bill Elliott oater now and then.     This one dates from his Republic period,

  US Marshal Morris unmasks the bad guys   Big, beefy and blond Wayne Morris started in the 1930s as a “sunny juvenile”, as the

  Amateur   There’s a little sub-genre of Western that might be described as a family film. Not a family film in the usual sense

  The Aussie Jesse James   The Australian Western, or ‘Western’, has a long history, and we on this blog have already looked at Westerns

  Point ‘em north   Fox’s 1955 movie The Tall Men (click the link for our review) was a great letdown, especially for a fine

  Allison has a showdown with Wyatt Earp   Accounts of the life of the noted gunman Clay Allison (click the link for our article

  Clay Allison on TV   Republic’s first television production, Stories of the Century, which ran for two seasons, 1954/55, was a popular show and

  Clay Allison shot to death, again   The third feature Western (that I know of) to feature the disreputable Western character Clay Allison (click

  Clay Allison’s the villain again   We’ve been looking at the nefarious career of Clay Allison (click the link for our article on him)

  Hoppy rides again   Back in July 2021 I wrote an article on this blog about the somewhat less than salubrious denizen of the

  Early conspiracy theory   Old men who claimed to be notable figures of history, in spite of the fact that history records the earlier

  Innocuous   More of a family/adventure film really, this picture nevertheless taps into the mountain man sub-genre of Western, and a sprinkling of gunplay

  The rather unmagnificent seven   Journey to Shiloh was a theatrical release but by 1968 the Western film had become pretty debased, frankly, and

  “I’ve made a living doing what I wanted to do”   James Griffith was a prolific Western actor who, between 1949 and 1960, appeared

  Great art it ain’t but…   Westerns were fond of numerical firearm titles. Ballad for One Gun (1963), Two Guns and a Badge (1954),

  Poor boy, you’re bound to die   In 1958 the Kingston Trio’s Grammy-winning version of the song Tom Dooley reached No. 1 in the

  Ted Post’s first theatrical Western   Ted Post was a highly prolific director who worked from 1950 thru 2002, helming very many episodes of

  Light-hearted musical comedy   Diligently pursuing our current thread of Westerns that Noah Beery Jr appeared in (click the link for our appreciation of

  A rattlin’ good oater   We’re on a bit of a Noah Beery Jr jag at the mo and that gives us a good

  Not great art but watchable   Bad Lands was a remake as a Western of John Ford’s WWI drama The Lost Patrol of 1934

  A lot of fun   We were talking about Noah Beery Jr the other day (click the link for our look at his Western