Western Movies
Hardin Biopic
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Few movie producers can claim to being enshrined on the surface of the moon. Larry Zeug is the exception: “When I worked at Rocketdyne, I was in the experimental department, and we built the LEM that landed on the moon. They had a plaque that we all signed, and it was engraved. So my name’s on the moon.”
IN THE WORKS
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Tommy Lee Jones will be starring, directing and writing an adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s classic novel The Homesman, costarring Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank.
Remembering Ernest Borgnine
- Published September 02, 2012
- Written by Josh Becker
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 worked in film continually from 1951 up until about June of this year, easily switching back and forth between dramas and comedies.
McLintock! Memories
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
It’s the movie people always ask me about. ‘Oh, I love John Wayne, but McLintock! has to be my favorite!’”
Actor Ed Faulkner punctuates this statement with an easy laugh and a degree of earned pride. His role, as the son of Bruce Cabot’s character, Ben Sage, triggers the wild mud brawl, which ranks among the most famous of Wayne’s movie moments. Audiences loved the knockdown comedy of 1963’s McLintock!,
Feud-Mania
- Published August 06, 2012
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This includes vendettas, blood feuds, private wars and, if you ask me, street rumbles, gas station price wars and long-standing neighborhood barbecue battles.
A New Yawk Jesse James
- Published March 18, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
"It never made any sense to put me in Westerns, because I never lost my ‘dem doity boids!’”
Larry Tierney punched the end of his New Yorker-accented statement with a pull on his drink.
The Iconic Duo
- Published July 10, 2012
- Written by Josh Becker
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 Sundance Kid (all three films feature actor Strother Martin in memorable roles). Getting three terrific Westerns in the same year seemed exceptional at the time, and it now seems beyond imagination.
Honoring Elmore
- Published February 11, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s Cattleman’s-style hat crafted by Baron Hats.
8 Classic Westerns
- Published July 10, 2012
- Written by TW Editors
That the train would inspire the world’s first narrative film, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery, makes complete sense to us.
The Mean-Nice Man
- Published January 08, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger, Michael Preece cut his teeth as script supervisor for some of the toughest directors in the business: Anthony Mann, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and Henry Hathaway.
Hollywood’s Honest Abe
- Published June 11, 2012
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
The Western was in a holding pattern, for the most part, in 2011.
We had Rango, which pulled out a shopping cart full of awards, including “Best Animated Feature Film” in this year’s Oscars.
Our Favorite Movies, TV Series & DVDs of 2012
- Published December 02, 2012
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
We run into John Wayne fans everywhere we go in this great nation of ours, and by New Year’s Day, after the holiday gifts have all been exchanged or traded in for something better (hey, it happens!), we bet a lot of them will have big smiles on their faces.
Wyatt Earp Wannabes
- Published May 15, 2012
- Written by True West Editors
More than 40 actors have portrayed Wyatt Earp, but few have even slightly resembled him. Which of the following actors do you believe best captures the real Wyatt? (Hint: the later the film, the more careful the makeup job.)
The Soul of Django Unchained
- Published November 05, 2012
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Quentin Tarantino has called his upcoming film Django Unchained a “Southern,” as it takes place in the South, moments before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. His story of runaway slave Django (Jamie Foxx)
The Big Kiss Off
- Published May 15, 2012
- Written by Josh Becker
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 classic—
The Stickler
- Published November 05, 2012
- Written by Bill Markley
“Did you sketch this picture of my daughter?” Cindy Costner, Kevin’s wife at the time, asked a Union soldier during a lull in the Dances With Wolves filming in 1989.
A.K.A. John Ford
- Published May 15, 2012
- Written by Margaret Barra
Sean Martin Feeney arrived in Los Angeles from Portland, Maine, in 1914 at the age of 19.
On the Trail with Gus and Call
- Published October 02, 2012
- Written by Elliot West
When Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove was published in 1985, virtually every review included the term “epic.” “Deeply affecting” was a close second in the flow of praise for what one critic called “the Great Cowboy Novel.”
Marfa, Texas
- Published May 14, 2012
- Written by TWMag
Called one of the last American frontiers, Marfa got its start as an 1883 water stop for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. This semiarid region features dry steambeds and a mountain terrain made up of the Davis, Chisos and Chinati ranges.
Good for Nothing
- Published October 01, 2012
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
Inge Rademeyer and Mike Wallis are a team and a couple; together they wrote and produced a completely original, extremely entertaining Western called Good for Nothing.
Tom Mix: The First Western Superstar
- Published May 14, 2012
- Written by TW Editors
Tom Mix began his career with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show.
