People say that today is the "golden age" of television -- that the smart writing today is in TV rather than features -- but watching these old westerns and crime shows, one can enjoy some fantastically good writing (acting, directing, etc.) in television of yore. Which I guess isn't too ...

I wish I knew more about them. I've always wanted to read THE FALL GUY, written by Charles ("Bad Chuck") Roberson (and inspiration for Lee Majors' television series), which is reputed to be an excellent biography about studio era stunt making. Roberson doubled for John Wayne in a lot of m...

Saratoga Trunk is a beautiful movie. No wonder so much of it stuck with me even when I had not seen it for years. Stagecoach is favourite, would be even if John Wayne was not in it, but I am very glad he was. It has so many great moments. A small but telling moment about the ladies is that when the ...

As for all the folklore about Howard Hawks and Rio Bravo, I don't know how much is true. Personally I love both films but find them very different. Rio Bravo has a lighter tone, but High Noon is the one that lingers in my memory. That ending - Will Kane had thought the townsfolk were his friends. W...

I just watched Saratoga Trunk (which is a kind of western I guess) for the first time in a long time and I think the scene where Gary Cooper is introduced is pretty good. As he lounges back on bar chair the camera pans up the whole long long length of him till it stops on the smile. Taking in everyt...

What are some of your favorite TV westerns? I guess Laramie is my favourite, and High Chapparel. The more I see of Wagon Train the more I like it. Not all of them of course but there are some gems in there. I just got DVD's of something called Overland Trail with a very young Doug McClure and Willi...

Thank you Miss Goddess and Mary-Kate I admit that I really love some of the old fifties and sixties westerns, well not Bonanza but many of the others and I am always surprised at some of the writing and stories so I do wonder if someone saw the context at the time. Some great actors too. A certain a...

Did anyone notice the exact duplicate of what was supposedly John Ford's home office to the studio office that Ward Bond had in Wings of Eagles? I liked the motif in the John Ford documentary, so just an hour or so later, when I saw Bond's 'set' office, I couldn't help wondering what copied what. I...

Thank you Paula for the screencaps. They are beautiful. One thing you can see in the cap with Ford and John Wayne is in the background, standing alone watching and no-one paying attention to him, Wayne certainly did not play the star needing an entourage or make a fussof the crew being near him. dee

Thank you for posting the vids. They are great. They also made me go back and watch the film again. Always a good thing, and of course every time you watch it you see something you never saw before. When Rance first meets Pompei again in the beginning of the film, he is very awkward and uncomfortabl...

I recently got the dvd of The Hanging Tree and whilst I always remember it as a very powerful film, I found it quite disturbing. Gary Cooper's character is odd to say the least, almost passive in that his only real western action is to kill someone quite brutally and he almost seems to accept his fa...

Thank you for all these pictures. They ahve been for the last year or so one of the pleasures of my day, looking to see what new ones are here and looking back over all the previous pages

dee

Paula

I always think that Brian Keith made almost every character he played better than it was written. And Duel at Shiloh is one of my favourite Virginian episodes but Ben sort of disappears in it.

The screen caps are fantastic


dee

Thank you for all the pictures Paula. Brian Keith is one of my favourite western actors.

dee

(I can finally post. Thank you Lynn)