While struggling to survive, Adams saves an orphaned grizzly bear cub he adopts and names Ben. The bear, while growing to its huge adult size, becomes Adams's closest companion. Adams discovers and demonstrates an uncanny ability to gain the trust of most of the indigenous wildlife of the ...
Most are well known around town, feared for their deadly ways. The outlaws in Westerns don't back down and aren't afraid to prove why they've achieved their infamous "bad guy" status. Whether it'sthe man Tom Doniphon quietly killsor a teacher getting revenge for her father's death, t...
You can make an argument for the Western film’s internationality on the names of the directors who have contributed to its iconography: You have your John Fords and your Anthony Manns, your Sam Peckinpahs and your Samuel Fullers, but over in Europe you also have filmmakers like Sergio Leon...
Ringo sure has some guts for wanting his family back after eight years. It's silly, but the character is likable because he is generally depicted as a well-mannered guy. Interestingly, she agrees to have him back, but she doesn’t make it easy for him. He has to prove, for at least...
letting the story play out at a stately pace (at least in the director’s preferred cut) and giving space to co-stars Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards to develop what might otherwise have been stock characters. It’s audacious, too, casting Fonda as not just a bad guy but a sadist ...
The year was 1963, and Clint Eastwood was tired of playing a Western hero. As Rowdy Yates on CBS' "Rawhide," he was stuck in a flavorless rut of white-hat derring-do, herding cattle and being an altogether swell guy while contending with stock genre villains. There was a future in ...
Big names, big talent: Headliners bring star power to SXSW, featuring red carpet premieres and gala film events with major and rising names in cinema. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Directors: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Producers: Jeremy Latcham, Brian Goldner, Nick Meyer,...
A small-town sheriff (John Wayne) in the American West enlists the help of a cripple (Walter Brennan), a drunk (Dean Martin, of course), and a young gunfighter (Ricky Nelson, still dreamy even as a cowboy) in his efforts to keep the brother of the local bad guy in jail. Director...
Badguys at Breakfast – Van Cleef, Strother Martin, Marvin THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE – John Wayne Love him or hate him, you’d really have to search for a long time to find a lousy picture of John Wayne. This guy was charisma personified. James Stewart Woody Strode and Wayne...
Through his magnetic performances, he helps elevate every picture he's in by serving as an intense opposing force to his "good-guy" co-stars. Perhaps most widely known for playing the titular Bad — or Angel Eyes — in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Van Cleef quickly became typecast...