The year marks the 80th anniversary of William Boyd’s film debut as Hopalong Cassidy. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up a saddle bag full of fun facts and trivia about the black-clad and (occasionally) limping cowboy hero of movies and TV.
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Jeffrey Hunter played a circuit-riding attorney in 1880s Texas in The Man from Galveston. Guest writer Laura Grieve lays down the law on the 1963 frontier legal drama, which started out as a TV pilot and lead to Hunter’s short-lived 1963-64 series Temple Houston.
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After starring on the big screen in everything from musicals to film noir, Dick Powell found further success on TV as producer/host/occasional star of Zane Grey Theatre. Guest blogger Caftan Woman reviews the award-winning frontier anthology drama.
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A look at Harry Carey, Jr., who appeared in over 90 films and is known for his work with Director John Ford, including the films Rio Grande (1950) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). He also appeared in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
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“Land Of The Outlaws”, “Blazing Bullets”, or “Colorado Ambush”, exciting classic westerns every DVD collector will want to own or how about Sea Hunt the first two seasons? These and other wonderful DVD collections now available
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams…this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all—to see life as it is and…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 presents this look at the saga of The Bold Ones, the NBC Mystery Movies, and Others: In 1955, U.S television launched one of its most interesting experiments: the umbrella series, in which different TV shows were…
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Guest blogger Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. writes: Dennis Weaver catapulted to boob tube fame playing Chester Goode, the sidekick to Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness, pictured with Weaver) on the veteran TV oater Gunsmoke. Weaver, who would win an Emmy…
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