The 2011 summer blockbuster film turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments, if you listen to Hollywood. With […]

to put it mildly, we at True West have been overjoyed—nay, overwhelmed—by our readers’ responses to the deceptively simple question: What is historically...

Returning to the modern West, this time as Officer Ben (right) with Hugh Dillon (left) and Elizabeth Olson in Taylor Sheridan’s crime-drama Wind River, Greene was awarded the Best Actor Award for his role at the American Indian Film Festival in 2017.

Many folks don’t understand why John Ford’s 1946 My Darling Clementine remains one of the greatest western movies of all time. There’s hardly anything in the film that’s accurate.

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John Wayne’s title role in Hondo became one of the most famous roles in his 50-year career on the Silver Screen.

to put it mildly, we at True West have been overjoyed—nay, overwhelmed—by our readers’ responses to the deceptively simple question: What is historically...

Guy Davis was cast as the famed deputy U.S. marshal in “Bass Reeves and the Brunter Brothers,” a 2017 episode of Tales of the Wild West. An unexpected plot twist has Davis’ Reeves partnered with Richard Cutting’s Wyatt Earp in tracking the wanted (and fictional) Brunter Brothers.

Graham Greene (right) costarred with Val Kilmer (left) in the 1992 Michael Apted-directed Thunderheart. He relished his role of Walter Crow Horse, a character created by the film’s screenwriter John Fusco.

Joseph Curtis Callender starred as Bass Reeves in the AHC docudrama Gunslingers episode, “The Real Lone Ranger.” Author Art Burton, along with True West’s columnist Johnny D. Boggs and executive editor Bob Boze Bell all participated as commentators for the episode that explored the legendary connection between Reeves and the mythical Lone Ranger.

Graham Greene’s storied 45-year career in film and television has left a trail of excellence.One of the most recent of Graham Greene’s 150-plus screen characterizations is in INSP’s movie Blue Ridge, a contemporary Western about Appalachian backwoods clans, with a “Hatfields and McCoys” feel.

Kim Darby, center, had to have plenty of “sand” and “grit” to star as the movie’s leading lady Mattie Ross opposite John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn (left) and Glen Campbell’s La Boeuf (right) in the original 1969 Hal Wallis production of Charles Portis’s novel True Grit.

Jason Johnson costars as fictional Sam Tanner beside Isaiah Washington as Bass Reeves in the Western Corsicana. The film’s production was delayed because of the pandemic in 2020 and is currently back in production in 2021.

While Diane Lane was not new to Westerns when she was cast as Lorena Wood in 1989’s groundbreaking television mini-series Lonesome Dove, her role permanently defined her as one of the greatest and most beloved heroines of Western film and television.– Courtesy Witliff Collections/Motown and CBS –

Neal McDonough starred as former Union soldier and lawman John Breaker in the INSP channel’s post-Civil War Western, The Warrant. McDonough, no stranger to Westerns and action series, most recently had a recurring role in Yellowstone’s 2019 season.– Courtesy INSP TV –

Producer Bobby Roberts’ Western ensemble Monte Walsh remains a classic 50 years later.