Western movies are not for everyone, but these classics of the genre offer a glimpse at what makes them so thrilling, epic, ...

Johnny Ringo was a real-life outlaw who made for a formidable villain in Tombstone but was played in a very different light in an earlier Western.

And it’s awesome! The movie that made Clint Eastwood a movie star, this Spaghetti Western is about an anti-hero named Joe (so, he DOES have a name!) who pits two different groups against each ...

The western—and by extension ... The film also influenced The Magnificent Seven and may be one of the first hero assembly movies ever. Speaking of, we might as well mention America’s 1960 ...

Charming former gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) is the definition of a western hero in George Stevens' essential movie. He's a quiet, incredibly talented shooter with a mysterious past who rides into ...

Western movie legend John Wayne developed the genre in a way that cemented him in film history forever. He wasn’t shy in acknowledging his own impact on the Western hero’s definition in the ...

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Western films have been a staple of American cinema for practically as long as movies have been ... where he ends up taking on the hero role and faces thrilling ...

Hart and joined the Saturday-afternoon company of Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers as one of the most-popular Western movie entertainers of his era.” ...

As Butch Hayden, a U.S. marshal on the trail of a bank-robbing couple in “Day of Reckoning,” Billy Zane plays a classic Western movie anti-hero, the lawman who’ll break the law to serve ...

The western—and by extension ... The film also influenced The Magnificent Seven and may be one of the first hero assembly movies ever. Speaking of, we might as well mention America’s 1960 ...