Two psychopaths   Five Grand (known as The Gunfighter in Canada and England) was co-produced, co-directed and co-written by Orson Ossman and Tyler Graham

  Averagely alright   The Broken Land is a late 50s Western, if you’re with me. I mean that it has all the attributes of

  A great American     Crazy Horse, Tȟašúŋke Witkó in Standard Lakota Orthography, was one of the most legendary of American Indians. His very

. Said to be Corbucci’s best work . . There’s no such thing as a good spaghetti western. The nearest the genre came to anything

.  The fastest gun in the West . . Then from dawn till setting sun He practiced with that deadly gun And hour on hour

  Mad Mads . In one way The Salvation is an unusual picture. It is Danish. We don’t get too many Danish Westerns. IMDb says:

  That was the year that was   Happy New Year, e-pards. Time to look back briefly over 2017. . . There were 150 posts,

  Doc’s back   Supernatural present-day Westerns with gunslingers battling zombies are not really my thing, though I must admit I did quite enjoy Cowboys &

  Gunslinger saves the town   While reviewing Prairie Fever recently I said I admired Lance Henriksen as Western actor, and kind reader Boppa left a

Kevin is a homesman   One is tempted to be rather dismissive of Hallmark-style TV Western movies or low-budget straight-to-video oaters, and yes, they can

  Villains by necessity   You wouldn’t necessarily expect Hallmark and TNT to produce King Lear for TV. But in 2002 they did just that,

  Not Randy’s finest hour   We’re getting mighty close to the end of that long trail which we have been following since May 2010,

  Westlicher Vorsprung durch Technik   Many readers will remember the late-1960s TV show The Wild Wild West (which I sometimes felt needed a comma

  War to the knife   Only a Western inasmuch as eighteenth-century sword-and-musket dramas are ever Westerns, this Netflix series does at least give us

  Not as bad as I feared   In its review of the picture, The Times of London at the time wrote, “As a work

  Randy saves the day (again)   The Man Behind the Gun is one of the most entertaining Randolph Scott Westerns. No one would pretend

  Hardly great art but worth it for Edgar and Douglas . . Though really only a minor mid-50s black & white Western from Lippert

  Edgar Buchanan with a derringer!   Macdonald Carey was never the most charismatic of Western actors, and in fact he rarely topped the bill

  Oklahoma lawman     William Matthew Tilghman (1854 – 1924) was one of the great lawmen of the old West. His name may not

  A poor person’s Gone with the Wind   I am still pursuing my sacred mission to see and comment on every Randolph Scott Western,

  Brazilian gorefest   O Matador, also known as The Killer, not to be confused with John Woo’s 1989 picture, is a new Brazilian Western

  Durango sets up the series . . Charles Starrett (left) took over from Tim McCoy as Columbia’s chief B-Western star in 1935, and made

  So long, Durango   The Kid from Broken Gun was the last in the long series of Durango Kid Westerns that Charles Starrett made

  Another Western noir from Niven Busch   When is a door not a door? When it is ajar, of course. That may be the

  Big, noisy, a lot of fun   In 1939 Warners joined the rest of the big studios in turning out a big-budget Western for

. A real dud . . A lifelong fan of Randolph Scott Westerns, your Jeff finds it difficult to find much positive to say about

  André De Toth and Randolph Scott ride again . André De Toth (left) directed six Westerns starring Randolph Scott. This one and The Bounty Hunter

  Minor Western with some interest   A rather obscure black & white low-budget Western of 1960, Four Fast Guns does nevertheless have some interest.

. The best ever Western rascal . . Among the many TV shows that might have been but never were was an entertaining 1955 pilot

  Not bad   Westerns liked states (or territories) for titles. There are oaters named California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, and so on. And in fact

  Enjoyable   It could be argued that 1953 was the very high point of the Western movie. The majors produced some of the greatest

. Dale is a good badman . . Essentially a 1950s Western, with only a slightly more visible amount of bosom and leg and a

. Bob bests the bad guys and gets the girl . .   Sundown Saunders was a Bob Steele Western cooked up and directed by

. Roy’s up in Deadwood now . . I kinda prefer early Roy Rogers Westerns, before Trigger got so darned intelligent. Roy had emerged from

  Billy the Kid rides (yet) again . . PRC, Producers Releasing Corporation, usually known as Poverty Row Corp, invested quite heavily in Billy the

  Brennan pitches for a TV show   In 1960, when big-screen Westerns were in decline and TV seemed to be taking over, it was

  Routine, but still…   After many small parts on Gene Autry and Roy Rogers oaters, and some of those Three Mesquiteers ones in the

. Pretty dreary . . The 1950s low-budget black & white Western didn’t die on January 1st 1960. It went on for some time to

  Rip-roaring   Popular culture loved the Texas Rangers. Not the real ones, of course, just a highly fictionalized, not to say idealized invented version.

. Train vs. stagecoach . . A standard plot device of Westerns is the idea of stage v. train. Dodge City opens with a race between

  Seen worse . . There have been quite a few Last Outlaws. John Ford, no less, directed a 1919 silent of that title, Gary

  Duke drills for oil   In Old Oklahoma, re-released as War of the Wildcats, is a wartime John Wayne Western, one of the several

  Dances with Cows . . After some 1960s-ish cartoon titles and a (rather overdone) comedy version of the bull-running in Pamplona (an event in

  Cagney with a Colt, not a machine gun   Nicholas Ray (1911 – 79), pictured left, directed this VistaVision Technicolor offering from Paramount, and

. Sergeant McCrea . . A major revelation coming up, so brace yourself. All my life I have disliked Barbara Stanwyck in Westerns. She was

  The evil Sitting Bull . . While 1953 was giving us mighty examples of our great genre, the likes of Paramount’s Shane, Warner Bros’

  Rory on TV     Rory Calhoun is best known to us Westernistas for his big-screen oaters, and very good many of them were

  Better than expected . . When reviewing The Covered Wagon last year, I wrote of its director James Cruze (left) that “He was no DW

  Weak from Walsh . . I never much cottoned to Clark Gable (left) in Westerns. After a small part in the talkie version of

. Hillbilly Montagues and Capulets . . This TV three-parter was the History Channel’s first venture in dramatized history. Fact or fiction, let’s call it

  The Lone Ranger rides (yet) again   The Lone Ranger first appeared in 1933, broadcast on a Buffalo, then on a Detroit radio station.

. Rod drives camels to California . . Southwest Passage is a curious Western in some ways in that it centers on a bold explorer/pioneer,

. A pure 1950s Western in the mid-60s . . Paramount were still releasing 1950s Westerns in 1965. Town Tamer could easily have been made

. Django? Rango? No, Drango. . . Reader John Knight, commenting on my review of The Vanquished, recommended Drango, a late 50s Jeff Chandler Western which

  He’s a bad man   While big color A-Westerns were coming out in 1953, the likes of Paramount’s Shane, MGM’s The Naked Spur and Warner

. Crooked town boss Lyle . . I don’t mind John Payne Westerns. He was not maybe in the very top rank of Western actors,

  Wellman gets arty   Track of the Cat was a Robert Fellows/John Wayne production under the Batjac label. They got William A Wellman to

  A mixed bag but mostly good     You can find reviews of all Sturges’s Westerns in the index.     John Sturges (left)

. John Sturges? I don’t think so. . . Chino was a bad sub-spaghetti-western of the early 70s made by Dino De Laurentis, an associate

  Ho-hum   Fred MacMurray was quite good in Westerns (though he didn’t care for them much) but this one was mediocre at best.