After the death of John Wayne in the late '70s, the Western genre was never the same. Clint Eastwoodwas moving away from the horse opera himself, only making Pale Rider in the '80s, and with its ...

At the start of the 1980s, much of Hollywood believed the Western to be a dead genre. The box office at the time was largely dominated by sci-fi, action, and even horror projects with the slasher boom ...

Forty-one years ago today, a Western that featured a star-studded cast hit theaters and initially flopped at the box office. The 1985 film Silverado has gone on to be embraced as a classic of the ...

Though the genre had faded in prominence at the time, there were a still number of stellar Western movies in the 1980s. The genre films released throughout the decade often took a more nuanced and ...

Westerns were out of fashion in the 1980s — as evidenced by "Heaven's Gate" flopping at the box office — but some filmmakers weren't ready to let the genre ride into the sunset. "Silverado," "The Long ...