Actor John Wayne isn’t the type of person that most folks would want to get into a fight with. He stood at a tall 6 feet and 3 3/4 inches, often towering over those around him. Additionally, Wayne ...

We may never see more B movies the likes of which made Budd Boetticher and Michael Curtiz into auteurs, but serialized dramas offer directors many of the same challenges and rewards. The end of the ...

Budd Boetticher, a maverick Hollywood director whose Westerns starring Randolph Scott in the 1950s are considered classics of the genre, has died at age 85. The Chicago-born Mr. Boetticher, a onetime ...

When you set yourself down to pondering, you realize westerns once occupied a huge swath of cinematic territory. But much like the lost open spaces of the West itself, they have been crowded out. In ...

The Criterion Collection is bestowing a mitzvah upon movie mavens who pine for the days when men were men, when wide open spaces weren’t tourist destinations, and when Karen Steele proved her mettle ...

Budd Boetticher, director of a series of celebrated ’50s Westerns starring Randolph Scott, died Nov. 29 at his home in Ramona, Calif., after a battle with cancer. He was 85. An expansive, ebullient ...