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Dan cuts the reins so the horse can get up and Cimarron spooks it, sending Watts to be dragged to death. Once the boys complete the drive to Belle Fourche, South Dakota , and sell the cattle, they have a stonemason carve a gravestone with Andersen's name and the inscription "Beloved Husband and Father", a reference to the paternal role Andersen ...
Cowboy is a 1958 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi and Brian Donlevy. This film is an adaptation of Frank Harris's 1930 semi-autobiographical novel My Reminiscences as a Cowboy. Lemmon's character is based on Harris. The opening animated title sequence was created by Saul Bass.
Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his long film career.
Fort Apache is commonly ranked among the most significant films of the "cowboy/western" genre, including: [12] "Top-Grossing Westerns from 1930–1972 and Plot Classification" per Wright, W. (1975) in Six guns and society: A structural study of the Western (pp. 30–32). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
serial Western Cowboy Serenade: William Morgan: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette: Singing cowboy Western Dawn on the Great Divide: Howard Bretherton: Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Mona Barrie, Rex Bell: Rough Riders serial Western Deep in the Heart of Texas: Elmer Clifton: Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt: B Western Down Rio ...
Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel Appaloosa by crime writer Robert B. Parker.Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, Appaloosa stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons.
Traditional Western Bad Day at Black Rock: John Sturges: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin: Film noir Western Canyon Crossroads: Alfred L. Werker: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk: B Western Chief Crazy Horse: George Sherman
Western films derive from the Wild West shows that began in the 1870s. [3]: 48 Originally referred to as "Wild West dramas", the shortened term "Western" came to describe the genre. [4] Although other Western films were made earlier, The Great Train Robbery (1903) is often considered to mark the beginning of the genre.