By the 1950s, the Western had outgrown its myths. The black-and-white morality of the frontier gave way to dustier truths — ...

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Our picture of a typical boy in 1950s America is of a towheaded tyke wearing a cowboy hat, sheriff's star and toy gunbelt, and there's a reason for that. Westerns flooded the small screen — it really ...

Gregory Peck's portrayal of Jimmy Ringo in The Gunfighter showcases his range as an actor, demonstrating restraint and nuance in a genre known for more over-the-top characters. The film challenges ...

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died. He was 85. The Chicago-born Boetticher, a onetime ...

If you want to pick the overall best decade for the Western genre, chances are you're going to settle on one that occurred ...