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Against a Crooked Sky

Against a Crooked Sky is a 1975 American Western film directed by Earl Bellamy and starring Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, and Henry Wilcoxon.

All Hat

All Hat is a 2007 Canadian western comedy film directed by Leonard Farlinger, written by Brad Smith (who also wrote the novel of the same name), and starring Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Noam Jenkins, and Lisa Ray.

Chartchai Ngamsan

His most notable role is as Sua Dum (Black Tiger) in Tears of the Black Tiger, a 2000 Thai western film.

DBCult Film Institute

The study and the interest of the organization is focused primarily on genre film productions, especially Horror film, Science Fiction film, Action film, Adventure film, Comedy film, Crime film, Mondo film, Drama film, Fantasy film, Mystery film, Noir film, Peplum or Sword-and-sandal film, Sexy, Spy film, Thriller film, War film, Western film, and related subgenres.

Empire Ranch

Around the same time, the ranch was featured in several Western films starring many actors, such as John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen.

Felix Jackson

Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.

Harold MacGrath

In 1912, Harold MacGrath became one of the first nationally-known authors to write directly for the movies when he was hired by the American Film Company to do the screenplay for a short film in the Western genre titled The Vengeance That Failed.

Russell Harlan

He performed as the cinematographer for the first time in 1937 on a Hopalong Cassidy western film that led to a career spanning more than thirty years.

Sagebrush Trail

Sagebrush Trail (UK title An Innocent Man) is a 1933 American modern day Western film with locations filmed at Bronson Canyon starring John Wayne and featuring Lane Chandler and Yakima Canutt.

Salty Holmes

While a member of the Prairie Ramblers, Holmes befriended Gene Autry, who invited him to Hollywood to star in Westerns in 1936 and 1944; among the films Holmes appeared in are Arizona Days and Saddle Leather Law.

Terence Hill

In 1964, he returned to Germany and there appeared in a series of Heimatfilmen, adventure and western films, made after novels by German author Karl May.

The Cutthroats 9

The band's name is a reworking of the title for the obscure 1972 cult Spanish western-horror film directed by Joaquin Romero Marchent, Cut-Throats Nine.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean is a 1972 western film written by John Milius, directed by John Huston, and starring Paul Newman (at the height of his career, between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting).

Utah State Route 128

The gorge widens where the highway passes by Castle Valley and Professor Valley, which have been the shooting locations for many western films (including Wagon Master and Rio Grande) and television commercials.


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A Time for Killing

A Time for Killing is a 1967 Western film started by Roger Corman but finished by Phil Karlson, and starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens and a young Harrison Ford (credited as Harrison J. Ford) in his first film role .

Aryana Farshad

She returned to her native country of Iran for a few years where she worked with major Iranian and western film makers including two times Academy Award winning French director Alber Lamorisse.

Belle Bennett

She appeared in minor motion pictures like the western film A Ticket to Red Horse Gulch (Mutual 1914).

Branding Broadway

Branding Broadway is a 1918 western film starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan, and produced by Thomas H. Ince and Hart.

Cad Bane

Lucas took inspiration from western film actors such as Lee Van Cleef's portrayal of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and of Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More while Corey Burton uses Peter Lorre's voice as inspiration.

Carol Thurston

Thurston never acted again after the role of Smithy's wife in the 1963 Audie Murphy western film, Showdown.

Cold dish

Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold, a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Pasquale Squitieri

Cowboy Action Shooting

:*Wild Bunch – based on popular Western film "The Wild Bunch"; shooters use Colt 1911 pistol instead of revolvers, use lever action rifles, and use Winchester Model 1897 shotgun instead of double-barreled shotgun.

One variant of CAS currently sanctioned by SASS is Wild Bunch Action Shooting, inspired by the famous Western film.

Cowboys and Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens, a 2011 American science fiction Western film, inspired by the comic

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout is a 1950 Western film starring George Montgomery as nephew of Davy Crockett.

Death Dealer

Death's Dealer, also known as Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold, a Spaghetti Western film starring Klaus Kinski

Dorothy Coburn

Raised in Prescott, Arizona, Coburn was born to cowboy-poet and Western film producer Wallace, and Ann Reifenrath Coburn in Great Falls, Montana.

Dyana Liu

The next year she co-starred in independent western film Between the Sand and the Sky opposite Dee Wallace.

Ernesto Gastaldi

He has collaborated with Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Riccardo Freda, Tonino Valerii, Sergio Martino and Sergio Leone; as such he can be regarded as a chief architect of the giallo and Spaghetti Western film.

Gary Clarke

In July 2003, Clarke and Drury, along with two other The Virginian costars, Roberta Shore and singer Randy Boone, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.

George Houston

George F. Houston (1896–1944), American B-western film actor and singer

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane is the 1980 made-for television sequel to the classic 1952 Western film High Noon.

Joanna Miles

In 2001, she had a secondary role as the wife of a storekeeper in Tom Selleck's Turner Network Television Western film, Crossfire Trail.

Jon Gries

In the historical Western film September Dawn, he played executed murderer John D. Lee, in a performance praised by critics who otherwise panned the film.

Lucky Cowboy

Lucky Cowboy is a 1944 American two-reel western film directed by Josef Berne using a screenplay by Robert Stephen Brode.

Paul Brinegar

Brinegar made over 100 appearances between 1946 and 1994, appearing in many western films, and played the barman in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter in 1973.

Psirens

The concept of sirens creating illusions to lure unwary travellers to their deaths first appears in Homer's Odyssey, and this concept is much-repeated in Western film and literature.

S. Craig Zahler

On October 30, 2012, Zahler was set to make his directorial debut with a horror western film Bone Tomahawk from his own script, the film stars Kurt Russell and Jennifer Carpenter.

Savannah Smith Boucher

That same year, she played "Zee" (for Zerelda) in the western film The Long Riders, based loosely on the bandit Jesse James.

The Asphalt Jungle

Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle was the basis of the western film The Badlanders (1958) directed by Delmer Daves, as well as the blaxploitation film Cool Breeze (1972), directed by Barry Pollack.

The Cheyenne Social Club

The exteriors were shot at two Western film lots Bonanza Creek Ranch and Eaves Movie Ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, while the interiors were shot at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood.

The Desperados

The Desperados is a 1969 western film directed by Henry Levin.

The Lavender Cowboy

It was then set to music and appeared in the 1930 Western film Oklahoma Cyclone.

The Lawless Nineties

The Lawless Nineties is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Lane Chandler as federal agents in Wyoming.

The Legend of Jake Kincaid

The Legend of Jake Kincaid is an independent western film directed by Alan Autry.

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy was also the western film debut of Indian actress Persis Khambatta, who would appear in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and with Rutger Hauer in Nighthawks.

Western Film Exchange

One of over 100 such "exchanges," Western Film proved to be more successful than most, opening branch offices in several midwestern cities, including Chicago, St. Louis, and Joplin, Missouri.

William K. Everson

His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).

Wrath of God

The Wrath of God, a Western film starring Robert Mitchum and Frank Langella

Zal Cleminson

In 2006 he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western film, A Shot in the West, for which he wrote the theme music.