When the unexpected news that TV wunderkind Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse was being renewed for a second season by Fox was announced, his fans...
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Director John Ford’s 1939 masterpiece Stagecoach almost single-handedly rescued the Hollywood Western from the B-movie status it had been...
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The classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo was born out of director Howard Hawks’ contempt for the highly acclaimed film High Noon starring Gary Cooper....
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Director John Ford was to the Western what Alfred Hitchcock was to the mystery thriller. (Certainly no other filmmaker did more to bring...
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Since film director John Ford knew the real Wyatt Earp personally, one might expect his 1946 20th Century Fox Western My Darling Clementine to be the...
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Veteran screenwriter William Goldman was something of a good luck charm for actor Paul Newman in that he wrote what are arguably Newman’s two...
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For over thirty years, actor/director Clint Eastwood has almost single-handedly saved the Hollywood Western from extinction. Of his many contributions...
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Serials (or cliffhangers, as they were affectionately called) were one of those regular features that made movies so much fun in the days before...
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Like many veteran pulp writers, Elmore Leonard started out in the Western genre before moving on to crime fiction. Several of Leonard’s Western...
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For dedicated film buffs, one of the most frustrating things about the Academy Awards is that even when the Oscar is given to the right person,...
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