Forgotten Film Classics
1959’s No Name on the Bullet
- Published November 08, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
About 30 years ago, my younger sister Pam had to write an essay on a “hero” for NYU.
1956’s The Last Frontier
- Published October 04, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
I honestly thought that I’d seen all of Anthony Mann’s great Westerns from the 1950s: Winchester ‘73, The Naked Spur, Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie. Nevertheless, a few months ago I stumbled across yet another terrific Western he directed, The Last Frontier.
1956's Seven Men From Now
- Published March 29, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
Seven Men from Now is the first, best and least-known of the seven films Producer-star Randolph Scott and Director Budd Boetticher made together.
1961’s The Comancheros
- Published August 28, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
John Wayne was in such a fertile period in his career when he made The Comancheros—coming off Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo, John Ford’s The Horse Soldiers and Wayne’s own mega-production of The Alamo—that The Comancheros got lost in the shuffle.
1972's Junior Bonner
- Published January 11, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
Four rodeo movies were released in 1972: Junior Bonner, J.W. Coop, When the Legends Die and The Honkers. (You might find four rodeo pictures in all the previous 72 years!)
1956’s The Last Hunt
- Published July 28, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
We are informed at the beginning of The Last Hunt that all of the depictions of buffalo hunting in the film were photographed at the annual “thinning” of the herds in South Dakota.
1929's Hell's Heroes
- Published November 09, 2010
- Written by Josh Becker
Being the severely-obsessed movie geek that I am (I’ve seen nearly 5,000 movies and keep a list), combined with the fact that William Wyler is my favorite director (Mrs. Miniver; Ben-Hur), I spent most of my life dying to see his 1929 version of the classic Western story by Peter B. Kyne, The Three Godfathers, titled Hell’s Heroes.
1972’s Ulzana’s Raid
- Published June 27, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
Ulzana’s Raid is one of the rare movies that has a particularly strong theme—violence: what does it mean, and how is it used?
The Red Bluffs Of Palo Duro Canyon
- Published September 01, 2009
- Written by Sarah Sayles
Beneath the Bright Red Bluffs of Palo Duro—Texas Panhandle offers riders unexpected beauty in the nation’s second largest canyon.
1958’s Terror in a Texas Town
- Published May 24, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
The year 1958 saw two Westerns with similar stories: William Wyler’s big-budget, color The Big Country and the low-budget, black-and-white Terror in a Texas Town.
Riding The Wall On The Outlaw Trail
- Published July 01, 2009
- Written by Ken Amorosano
Old West history is filled with legendary names, legendary places. And without a doubt, one of them is Hole-In-The Wall.
1912’s The Invaders
- Published April 26, 2011
- Written by Josh Becker
“In the name of the eternal fitness of things, has not this cowboy-Indian obsession gone far enough?” reported Moving Picture World in December 1911.
