The traditional Hollywood Western arguably reached its peak in the 1950s, the decade that saw the release of classics like High Noon, Shane, Rio Bravo, and The Searchers, movies that have entered ...

More Westerns were produced in the 1950s than all other movie genres combined, but while they have attracted smaller crowds since then, they still have a persistent appeal.

The Western trail to this mighty homestead had been well-blazed for a full decade. It was 60 years ago -- Sept. 15, 1949 -- that ABC premiered the television version of "The Lone Ranger." ...

Before superheroes ruled over cinema, there were the cowboy gunslingers of Westerns. The genre reached its peak in the 1950s, which saw one movie tower above them all: Shane, a gorgeously directed ...

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died. He was 85. The Chicago-born Boetticher, a onetime ...

Western movies once ruled Hollywood the way comic book movies seem to now. ... HEFNER: Well, the real fall is in the 1950s. By 1960, it's really, really dropped.

But that love hasn’t blinded me to the reality of the Western, specifically Western films, within American pop culture. During the 1950s and 1960s this genre was king, ...

Dale Robertson, Star of TV Westerns, Dies at 89. The Oklahoma native toplined NBC’s “Tales of Wells Fargo” in the late 1950s and appeared in scores of other films and TV shows.