The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract. (IMDb)
Category: Spicy Spaghetti Westerns
The wild west with all its history, legends and mythologies, on the big screen, or in the pulps.
Mammoth Western, Jan, 1949
Cimarron Promotional Artwork
Some stunning artwork promoting the 1931 film Cimarron.
Gov’t Approved
1865 advertisement for Remington’s Army and Navy model revolvers.
His Very Name…
The Quick and the Dead, 1995
Before Spiderman, and after the Evil Dead, Director Sam Raimi tried his hand at a western film. His years of experience with the horror genre seeped into this film with stunning visual effects. The story revolves around a small town’s quick draw competition.
Silverado, 1985
35 years ago, Silverado was released. With its all star cast, it is an epic western in the vein of similar styled westerns of the 1960s and 70s.
Artwork used on one of the promotional posters
RIP Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Ennio Morricone was a prolific Italian composer, with 540 credits to his name. He is best know for his iconic theme to The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which helped define the spaghetti western genre. Besides his work in The Man With No Name trilogy, he also composed the score for Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), the Thing (1982), the Untouchables (1987) and more recently he composed the score for Quentin Tarantino’s, The Hateful Eight (2015). His inventive use of non traditional “instruments” (due to budget restraints) shaped the mood of the dollar trilogy, giving it the atmosphere we all know so well. He died at the age of 91 in the town in which he was born, Rome, Lazio, Italy
A Mexican Buccaro
A Mexican Buccaro – In Texas, by Frederic Remington, circa 1890.
Spicy Western Stories, May, 1939
