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For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888 . Until 1903 , films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [ 1 ] reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term.
He went on to appear in the films Testament (1983), and Shadows Run Black (1984) before co-starring in the 1985 ensemble western film Silverado alongside Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, and Danny Glover. The same year, he starred in the comedy film Fandango with Judd Nelson , as well as American Flyers with David Marshall Grant .
Title Director Cast Release date Country Subgenre/notes 2010: 6 Guns: Shane Van Dyke: Greg Evigan, Barry Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke, Sage Mears: March 6, 2010: United States: Aballay ...
Some films are not listed here in order to keep this list to a manageable size. These include films that were released before 1930 (see Category:Films by year for pre-1930 films) and works of the United States government. Films released under a free license such as Creative Commons are also excluded.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Attempting to free the town from Caldwell's gang, Keoma joins his father's former ranch hand to run Caldwell and his brothers out of town. 25 November 1976 (Italy) Widely considered to be one of the last great spaghetti Westerns produced by an Italian studio, the film was later honored at the Venice Film Festival, on 31 August 2007.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.