Although he is best known for his marketing gimmicks that made films like The Tingler and 13 Frightened Girls such cult successes, B-movie legend William Castle also worked in genres other than horror. The sagebrush gems of the schlockmaster director…
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The golden age of the westerns produced a smattering of heroes: John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Audie Murphy, and… George Montgomery? If you are, like me, saying who the deuce is George Montgomery? Sit back while I fill you in…
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Looking to saddle up with some classic cowboy fun? Then might we suggest you take a ride with Trigger, Jr.? In this 1950 favorite, Roy Rogers and his traveling circus wind up at a ranch owned by Colonel Harkrider (George…
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Republic Pictures’ 1950 sagebrush success Singing Guns stars big band legend Vaughn Monroe as an ornery varmint who becomes overcome by guilt after he wounds a pursuing sheriff (Ward Bond). Monroe takes Ward to kindly doctor Walter Brennan, and for…
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In today’s guest post, writer and actor Craig Pisani shares his thoughts on the seminal classic The Wild Bunch: In what many consider being the last of the great Westerns, Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 violent masterpiece The Wild Bunch stars Oscar…
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Now available on DVD and Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics is the 1970 cult Western Cannon for Cordoba When the Mexican revolutionary Cordoba (Raf Vallone) steals six cannons from the U.S. military, Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) leads a ragtag…
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In 1935, Hop-Along Cassidy was released and the Western genre was never the same again. The film introduced audiences of the era to William Boyd as the character of
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1. The Magnificent Seven (1960) is a pretty faithful adapatation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai (1954)–except that the American Western is 79 minutes shorter! It does have a scene not in the original: the one where Chris (Yul Brynner)…
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With the Ben-Hur remake already having come and gone, the latest eyebrow-raising remake of a Hollywood classic comes to theaters today in the form of a new take on The Magnificent Seven. However, this latest remake is no mere cash…
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The Wild Bunch is director Sam Peckinpah‘s controversial sagebrush classic that remains one of the most beloved — and talked about — Westerns of all time. Set in the Southwest of 1913, the film concerns a gang of outlaws who…
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