“We plan on shooting this epic, never-before-told story about the life of John Wesley Hardin,” says Miguel Corona, an associate producer of the...
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Josh Becker
True West’s PBS Special
True West’s Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell, Old West Saviors columnist Jana Bommersbach and Ask the Marshall columnist and Arizona State Historian...
Remembering Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine, Oscar-winning actor and perennial favorite of movies and TV for more than six decades, died on July 8, at the age of 95. Borgnine...
The Iconic Duo
The last great year for Western movies was 1969, which saw the release of three classics: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the...
The Big Kiss Off
John Ford’s 1946 classic film, My Darling Clementine, the story of Wyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral gunfight, is anything but a forgotten film...
Six Forgotten Film Classics
Josh Becker has watched 4,720 movies. After 36 years in the film industry, 42 screenplays, 20 years’ worth of TV shows and seven feature films, he...
1959’s No Name on the Bullet
About 30 years ago, my younger sister Pam had to write an essay on a “hero” for NYU. She chose Bruce Springsteen. I said, “I like Bruce, but he even...
1956’s The Last Frontier
I honestly thought that I’d seen all of Anthony Mann’s great Westerns from the 1950s: Winchester ‘73, The Naked Spur, Bend of the River and The Man...
1961’s The Comancheros
John Wayne was in such a fertile period in his career when he made The Comancheros—coming off Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo, John Ford’s The Horse...
1956’s The Last Hunt
We are informed at the beginning of The Last Hunt that all of the depictions of buffalo hunting in the film were photographed at the annual...
1972’s Ulzana’s Raid
Ulzana’s Raid is one of the rare movies that has a particularly strong theme—violence: what does it mean, and how is it used? To perfectly...
1958’s Terror in a Texas Town
The year 1958 saw two Westerns with similar stories: William Wyler’s big-budget, color The Big Country and the low-budget, black-and-white Terror in...