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A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music. However, the production of such films as "second features ...
The B movie, whose roots trace to the silent film era, was a significant contributor to Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. As the Hollywood studios made the transition to sound film in the late 1920s, many independent exhibitors began adopting a new programming format: the double feature.
The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a Republic Pictures series of 51 American Western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943. The films, featuring a trio of Old West adventurers, was based on a series of Western novels by William Colt MacDonald. The eponymous trio, with occasional variations, were called Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith ...
The western is one of the most beloved genres of all. Below is a reminder of some of the greatest entries in the western canon. 20. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959) The pick of Boetticher and ...
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.
The western—and by extension, cowboy—may be the only cinematic genre that, on first glance, feels uniquely American. The lone no-named figure venturing forth into the wild, into the frontier ...
This is a list of notable Western films and TV series, ordered by year and decade of release. For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production.
B Western Oklahoma! Fred Zinnemann: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Gloria Grahame, Charlotte Greenwood, Rod Steiger, Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, Barbara Lawrence, Jay C. Flippen, Roy Barcroft: Musical Western Outlaw Treasure: Oliver Drake: Johnny Carpenter, Adele Jergens: B Western Rage at Dawn: Tim Whelan