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But Sheridan is best when he keeps closest to his "Yellowstone" roots. So enjoy spinoffs "1883" and "1923" (period Westerns about Dutton ancestors), but steer clear of hacky "Tulsa King" and ...
In this period, post-Western precursors to the modern neo-Western films began to appear. This includes films such as Nicholas Ray's The Lusty Men (1952) and John Sturges's Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). [8]: 56 Examples of the modern "first phase" of neo-Westerns include films such as Lonely Are the Brave (1962) and Hud (1963).
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.
10. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1969) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%. IMDb Score: 8/10. A train robbery gone wrong sets the stage for what has become not just a classic Western film, but ...
Ever since the overwhelming popularity of Yellowstone and its spin-offs, 1883 and 1923, it feels like every streaming service attempted to produce at least one competitor to the western drama.
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.
Hell or High Water was a shot in the arm for the genre with a blistering modern heist story that follows two brothers trying to rob enough banks to save their family’s ranch, while Texas Rangers ...
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