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 ...

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 ...

Western films have been a staple of American cinema for more than a century, so we compiled a list of the 30 most memorable Westerns of all time. ... ‘Winchester ’73’ (1950) ...

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 ...

Glance back at the coded Freudian Westerns of the 1950s and the revisionist horse operas of the 1960s and 1970s, not to mention the politically charged, heavily Marxist spaghetti Westerns coming ...

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.

Historically, Western actors are so synonymous with the silver screen that it’s easy to forget some of the greats who made ...

18. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, 1950). James Stewart showed that he could ride, shoot ‘em up and trade blows with the best of the Western icons in his episodic quest to retrieve his stolen ...

That was how Budd Boetticher, whose “B” westerns of the 1950s became touchstones of the genre, summed up his movies. Walter Hill’s sinewy new western, “Dead for a Dollar,” is dedicated ...