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The gunfighter set the blueprint for John Wayne's The Shootist

In 1950, Hollywood legend Gregory Peck headlined The Gunfighter, which still influences Westerns seventy-five years later.
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72 Years Later, Louis L’Amour’s Work on This John Wayne Western Remains One of the Greatest Ever Made

The short story is the bread and butter of the Western genre. Plenty of classic Western films—such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rio Bravo, to name a few—were adapted from ...

1969 Was the Greatest Year for the Western, and These 10 Movies Prove It

The Western genre had its last hurrah in 1969, producing classics like True Grit and The Wild Bunch, and cementing the year ...

Quentin Tarantino's “Hateful Eight” inspirations

Tarantino has previously cited Howard Hawks' John Wayne Western and "hangout movie" as his favorite film, and while the tone ...