The Searchers was made in the dying days of the classic dark Western, which faltered when Indians ceased to be typecast as savages. Revisionist Westerns, including Ford’s own Cheyenne Autumn [ … ]
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Once Upon a Time in America – A Dark Spaghetti Western
After making his American Civil War epic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone had intended to retire from making Westerns, believing he had said all he wanted to say. [ … ]
HBO’s Deadwood Movie Begins Production
HBO’s Deadwood movie has begun production 12 years after the end of the premium network’s Emmy-winning Western series from David Milch. Most of that original cast is returning for the film, which takes [ … ]
Jonah Hex (2010) – Dead Man Talking
Having cheated death, gunslinger and bounty hunter Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) has one foot in the natural world and one in the supernatural. His unusual nature gives him the ability [ … ]
‘And Hell Followed with Him’: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985) American Gothic Western – Part 4
The following is the last of a four part series by John Edgar Browning about Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985), taken from “Undead in the West II: They Just Keep [ … ]
‘And Hell Followed with Him’: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985) – Part 3
The following is part three of a four part series by John Edgar Browning about Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985), taken from “Undead in the West II: They Just Keep [ … ]
‘And Hell Followed with Him’: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985) Gothic Eurowesterns – Part 2
The following is part two of a four part series by John Edgar Browning about Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985), taken from “Undead in the West II: They Just Keep [ … ]
‘And Hell Followed with Him’: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985) – Part 1
The following is part one of a four part series by John Edgar Browning about Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider, taken from “Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming“, [ … ]
Deadwood Movie Finally Coming to HBO
HBO is officially moving forward with the Deadwood movie. The announcement was made by HBO programming president Casey Bloys at the TCA summer press tour on Wednesday. “All of these people worked hard to get this [ … ]
Hostiles (2017) – A Haunting Gothic Western Elegy
In what is a haunting Gothic Western tale set in 1892, legendary Army Capt. Joseph Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to [ … ]