1950s was a Golden Age for Westerns, featuring iconic films with strong social messages & ensemble casts. Westerns served as ...

Westerns are one of the most popular film genres ... But movie-goers in the 1940s and 1950s preferred their stars to be clean-shaven with short hair, so cattle-driving characters sacrificed ...

From 1903’s The Great Train Robbery—arguably the first American action movie—until the 1950s, Westerns accounted for anywhere between 20 and 40 percent of all American-made films.