There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...
A powerhouse for decades, like the superhero genre of today, lost its cultural stature as audiences were saturated with product, took a detour with revisionist auteur filmmakers then broke out again ...
Dorothy Fay Ritter, a leading lady for Buck Jones, William “Wild Bill” Elliott and other sagebrush screen heroes of the 1930s and ‘40s, including the man she married, singing cowboy Tex Ritter, has ...