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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early television in the 1950s was a freewheeling frontier of both live and taped offerings mostly dominated by comedies, game shows, kids programs, and westerns like "I Love Lucy," "The $64,000 ...

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 ...

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

10. The Misfits (1961) Image via United Artists. Ironically, one of the all-time best Western movies is also one of the most atypical. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift star in ...

If you listen to the Left, the 1950s were a decade of boring conformity (the poet Robert Lowell referred to it as “the tranquilized Fifties”) — and the movies of that era, one is told, were ...