By the time comic books based on movie and TV cowboys were extremely popular in the late '40s and '50s, Hoot Gibson's star had long faded at the box office so the big two of western-movie/TV related comic publishers, Dell and Fawcett, were simply not interested in old Hooter who ...
The western film can be dated fromEdwin S. Porter’sThe Great Train Robbery(1903), which set the pattern for many films that followed.D.W. Griffithmade a series of highly successful westerns in the years beforeWorld War I. During the silent-screen era three actors achieved great popularity...
Perhaps midway through a movie in which the Civil War is over, slavery has ended and all the leading roles are played by Black actors, Nat and his gang ride into a town of rich, terrified-looking white folks. The town has literally been whitewashed: Every plank, sign and stoop has been...
Not you, Jimmy. Actor Jefferson White’s inability on a horse is well-documented — although we hear he’s getting better — but other actors that stay in theYellowstonebunkhouse are veterans of the rodeo. Actor Forrie J. Smith (Lloyd), Jake Ream (Jake), Ethan Lee (Ethan) and Ryan Bi...
Not you, Jimmy. Actor Jefferson White’s inability on a horse is well-documented — although we hear he’s getting better — but other actors that stay in theYellowstonebunkhouse are veterans of the rodeo. Actor Forrie J. Smith (Lloyd), Jake Ream (Jake), Ethan Lee (Ethan) and Ryan Bi...
First, you may think it represents taking a break from a long day's hard work at the ranch or maybe getting frisky with his woman. LOL! None of that is going on, if anything it's a long-standing tradition for cowboys that dates back to the frontier days. What it does mean is that...