The short story is the bread and butter of the Western genre. Plenty of classic Western films—such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rio Bravo, to name a few—were adapted from ...

Every decade has a cinematic genre that forever defines its generation. In the 1930s, it was the kind of screwball comedy that starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. In ...

Louis L'Amour was the king of western novels, and many of his books and short stories have been adapted into classic movies. Across a four-decade career, L'Amour crafted dozens of novels and stories ...

Ward Bond is a beloved Western actor from the Golden Age of cinema and one of John Wayne's most frequent co-stars. Bond worked with The Duke almost from the start, as he was part of the cast in John ...

“What you got ain’t nothin’ new,” drawls Ellis (Barry Corbin) to Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western film “No Country for Old Men.” This notion of perpetual ...

I rode into a rocky canyon on a horse named Estrella, our passage soundtracked by the demonic whistles, wails and whip-cracks of Ennio Morricone’s theme music from the classic western “The Good, the ...