Classic Hollywood: 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, ... Classic Hollywood: Western film pioneers have silent-era roots. By Susan King, Los Angeles Times . July 25, 2011 12 AM PT .

Old timers who lived through the Wild West spun tales and printed legends, to use the famous phrase from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... By 1958, Hollywood made 54 Westerns ...

1. Tumbleweed didn't blow all over the place. Tumbleweed rolling through a deserted street is a common sight in classic Hollywood westerns, but in reality, seeing the wind-blown plants would have ...

“Rust,” Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without ...

As movie genres go, the Western is a workhorse. ... In the very first Hollywood movie, 1910’s In Old California, white actors played non-white roles.

‘Rust’ honors the classic Hollywood western, uneasily. Alec Baldwin stars in an otherwise unremarkable movie that has been overshadowed by its tragic production story. May 1, 2025.

HOLLYWOOD WESTERNS AND AMERICAN MYTH: THE IMPORTANCE OF HOWARD HAWKS AND JOHN FORD FOR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY By Robert B. Pippin Yale University Press, $35 188 pages REVIEWED BY LAUREN WEINER In ...

A new movie offers a different take on The Hollywood western. David Edelstein has our review: “Hell or High Water” is the best movie I’ve seen all year -- all last year, too. It’s still ...