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Rio Bravo Still Sings
Some Westerns grow in stature, like The Searchers (1956), while others stay comfortably familiar, like The Magnificent Seven (1960).
Month of Atonement
This must be the month of atonement because culpability for ancient and unaddressed sins is the overriding theme of the summer, on TV and in the movies.
Dreamscape Desperado
Billy the Kid just keeps riding across the dreamscape of our minds-silhouetted against a starlit Western sky, handsome, laughing, deadly.
Spanakopita Western
"I'm going to give you a chance-to die!" Thus teases a trailer on YouTube for a Greek Western called No Mercy for the Hunted.
The Reel, not Real, Jesse James in Film
The best Jesse James movie is 2000's Ride With the Devil, which isn't about Jesse James.
The Train Man
The producers of the movie Wild, Wild West were looking for some trains. Not just any trains.
Screamin' Sheb
When former Sen. Fred Thompson took the floor of Congress in October 2002 and declared Sheb Wooley to be an official "American treasure," Wooley was definitely surprised.
An Untraditional, Quirky Western
Throw in one eclectic filmmaker (Tom Shell), a director who helped give Twin Peaks its creepy edge (Tim Hunter) and an Edgar Award-winning mystery writer as tough as Sam Spade (James Crumley), and you can bet The Far Side of Jericho is one quirky Western.