Tagged:Westerns
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. It was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such [...]
Liam Neeson (Batman Begins, Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace) and Pierce Brosnan (Bond movies, The Thomas Crown Affair) star in this epic chase and primal battle set in the breathtaking landscape of the West. The civil war has ended but Colonel Morsman Carver (Neeson) is on one final mission: to kill Gideon (Brosnan) no matter what it takes.
This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list and establishing the genre as we know it today. The quintessential tale of a group of strangers thrown together into extraordinary circumstances, Stagecoach features outstanding performances from Hollywood stalwarts Claire [...]
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper’s daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief’s daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other’s throats his troubles really begin.
Jim ‘Nevada’ Lacy (Robert Mitchum) has trouble with getting lynched. Nevada is a 1944 western movie based on a Zane Grey novel and starring a 27-year-old Robert Mitchum.
Blue Steel is a 1934 Western film in which John Wayne plays a U.S. Marshal who is trying to capture the Polka Dot Bandit, who has taken off with $4,000.
Gary Cooper and Lila Damita star in probably one of the first examples of an epic western. Lila Damita was French and was convent educated. She was a trained ballet dancer, model and actress who retired from the screen when she married Errol Flynn. She had a son with Errol Flynn who was lost and [...]
From 1964 through 1967, the show was #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings. In terms of longevity, the show remains NBC’s second longest-running series, after Law and Order.