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Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton
Two TV episodes of the 1957 TV series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans: Apache Warrior: Elmo Williams: Keith Larson, Jim Davis: Traditional Western The Badge of Marshal Brennan: Albert C. Gannaway: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan: Badlands of Montana: Daniel B. Ullman: Rex Reason, Margia Dean, Emile Meyer: The Big Land: Gordon Douglas
dramatic Western Broken Arrow: Delmer Daves: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jay Silverheels, John Doucette: revisionist Western California Passage: Joseph Kane: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara: traditional Western Call of the Klondike: Frank McDonald: Kirby Grant: B Western The Capture: John ...
Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [1] reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term. Edwin S. Porter was a former projectionist and exhibitor who had taken charge of motion-picture production at Thomas Edison 's company in 1901 .
Colt .45 (also known as The Colt Cousins) is an American Western television series, originally starring Wayde Preston, which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. [ 1 ] The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name , starring Randolph Scott .
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pages in category "1950 Western (genre) films" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This ...
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.