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Set in the American West during the 1940s, the film centres on a pair of little-guy ranchers who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron determined to expand his empire at any cost....
Radio series. In this episode about corruption on the Barbary Coast, the Lone Ranger is giving advice to his nephew, Dan, before sending him away to school. He begins ‘Years ago, a writer in England named...
Feature film. A withdrawn girl who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend is shunned by the people in her small American town of Buckeye Basin. After the baby has been put up for adoption she escapes to the world...
Television variety show. The second half of the programme contains a sketch entitled ‘The life and Legend of Matt Macbeth’, by Wild Will Shakespeare, presenting Macbeth as a musical Western. Dick Bentley...
Radio western series set in 1840s Texas starring Barton Yarborough as Hawk Larabee. Hawk meets a broken-down actor, Edwin Crane, in a saloon unaware that Crane is part of a plot to set up Hawk for some...
Spaghetti western. Travelling Shakespearean actor and gunman Joe Clifford (Steffen) inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle’s murderer, controls...
Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...
Western starring Peter Fonda as Harry, a drifter who, with his friend Archie, has crossed the plains of America in search of a better life. But tiring of the transient existence Harry heads for home and the...
The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. This month’s Roundup features two...
Radio western series, the forerunner of the well-known television series of the same name featuring Marshall Matt Dillon (William Conrad), his assistant Chester Proudfoot (Patley Baer) and Doc Adams (Howard...