Westerns can be a tough sell in other countries because they are so specifically American.
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In recent years, black characters have appeared in Westerns such as Posse, Unforgiven and Django Unchained.
During his career, Robert Wise cranked out dozens of popular films including westerns and science fiction.
What a joyful, heroic quest, much in the tradition of the great classic American Westerns and Star Wars.
Science-fiction may now have reached the impasse that westerns did more than a quarter of a century ago.
He also appeared in a number of Westerns, including 3:10 to Yuma, Cowboy, Texas, and The Fastest Gun Alive.
In those great Westerns about cattle ranching, John Wayne normally leads his steers on a long trek to the railhead.
Yardena Rand, author of Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns, takes several chaps-clad cowboys along when she speaks at bookstores.
Like the current sci-fi lampoons, many of these comic westerns were funny.
He is popular in Hollywood, and the way he has evolved from starring in spaghetti westerns to a director of substance commands respect.
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This discordant medley of enthusiasm and regret would subsequently be echoed in the frontier novels of James Fenimore Cooper and the Westerns of John Ford.
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The record's true strength is its artful tributes to classic westerns, tying the album stylistically and thematically to the wild-west in all its gun-blazing glory.
This early success defies the logic of many movie critics who claim that revenge-themed westerns can no longer succeed in Hollywood as they once did.
That said, when the kid in those old Westerns tries to take out the fastest gun in the West, it usually ends badly for him.
Encore has outlets for action flicks, Westerns, romance and the like.
The posters document the era of "B-Movie" film-making in the first half of the 20th Century, covering genres such as westerns, war films and musicals.
Stalled in a Western, these time travellers from the manic, jumped-up nineteen-eighties adjust their internal clocks and do what characters in Westerns do: they wait.
The album opens with "Pistolas at Twenty Paces, " a fierce, 30-second, rattling guitar strum which mimics the tense soundtracks of the twenty-pace gunfights in old westerns.
Westerns featuring the likes of Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers and John Wayne were filmed around Santa Clarita, which has a star walkway honouring film and TV actors.
Then there is John Ford, the great American director of such classic westerns as "Stagecoach" (1939), "The Searchers" (1956) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962).
Now the musicals and westerns that emerge are considered unusual.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
Gary Cooper, as an honorable Confederate colonel who becomes a soldier of fortune in Mexico, asks the key question for this and all the South-of-the-border Westerns that followed: What gets into Americans down here?
Yvonne, who is pregnant and dreams of a better life for her child, drains away the hours watching B-Westerns in an all-night grind house while her layabout boyfriend, Homer, goes out to drink and gamble.
There was already tremendous curiosity about the West, especially on the part of Soviet youth, voracious for movies (particularly Tarzan and westerns), music (rock and jazz, even though they were banned) and other aspects of American life.
In the prison library, where inmates most ask for Westerns and romance novels, employees scour pages of returned books just to make sure there's not a message or code that could be passed along to another inmate.
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It seems incredible to suggest that such a popular form of storytelling might be on the way out, but it's happened before: Musicals and westerns were once staple entertainment for the moviegoing masses, and somewhere in the 1970s they just went thataway.
Watching him at work, in the days leading up to the landing, I was reminded of Henry Fonda in one of his early Westerns: squinting at the horizon and chewing over his options while the townsfolk galloped off in a dozen different directions.
The safest thing one could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns.
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