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Jane Got a Gun – but most women in westerns still don't

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
From Belle Starr to Calamity Jane, women rarely wield a gun with gusto in the Wild West. Will Hollywood ever do justice to female sharp-shooters? ... Welch also packed firepower in the vulgar but energetic rape-revenge western Hannie Caulder (1971), in which she goes gunning for the villains who murdered her husband and gang-raped her, though director Burt Kennedy never passes up on an opportunity to showcase her tightly trousered bottom....

Remembering Clifton Adams, an Oklahoma author all but lost to history

Edit The Oklahoman 14 Sep 2014
; ... His books would not have been turned into film vehicles for director William Whitney and his star Roy Rogers, but they could’ve easily been adapted in the 1950s for filmmaker Anthony Mann and James Stewart, who collaborated on such films as “The Man From Laramie” or the screenwriter/director team of Budd Boetticher and Burt Kennedy and star Randolph Scott who made six serious Westerns, including Elmore Leonard’s “The Tall T.” ... ... 5....

Andrew V. McLaglen, director who specialized in westerns, dies at 94

Edit Sacramento Bee 05 Sep 2014
LOS ANGELES -- Andrew V. McLaglen, a prolific veteran of westerns, action films and television who directed many of classic Hollywood's most enduring stars - including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and William Holden - died Aug. 30 at his home in Friday Harbor, Wash. He was 94 ... His best-known work includes ... It was written by Burt Kennedy, who would earn critical praise as a writer and director of westerns. Wayne guaranteed the financing....

Andrew V. McLaglen dies at 94; veteran director of western films

Edit The Los Angeles Times 05 Sep 2014
Andrew V. McLaglen, a prolific veteran of westerns, action films and television who directed many of classic Hollywood's most enduring stars, including John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, died Aug. 30 at his home in Friday Harbor, Wash. He was 94. McLaglen died in his sleep of natural causes, said his daughter Mary McLaglen ... 8 ... It was written by Burt Kennedy, who would earn critical praise as a writer and director of westerns ... 0....

ENCORE Westerns paying tribute to James Garner TODAY with "Maverick," movies

Edit The Oklahoman 26 Jul 2014
by Brandy McDonnell. ;. James Garner as Bret Maverick of the TV show "Maverick." The Oklahoman Archive photo. ENCORE Westerns is commemorating the life of film and television legend James Garner, an Oklahoma native, with an all-day marathon today that includes episodes of his hit TV series “Maverick,” along with three of his films ... The movie is directed by Burt Kennedy and stars James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette and Jack Elam ... ....

James Garner: 'Like, Zen, man'

Edit CNN 21 Jul 2014
updated 11.48 PM EDT, Sun July 20, 2014 ... Editor's note ... His persona ... Like Zen, man." ... Then there were those back-to-back Burt Kennedy Western spoofs, 1969's "Support Your Local Sheriff" and 1971's "Support Your Local Gunfighter," in which he played separate versions of the slow-thinking, fast-acting wayfaring stranger who'd rather do anything than be a hero ... 0 ... Kennedy Jr ... Kennedy Jr.'s reaction to an event in 1995 summed up his character ... ... ....

Breaking Bad Spinoff Casts Orphan Black Alum and 2 More—See Who!

Edit IMDb 08 May 2014
Fabian, who thrilled fans in The Last Exorcism, will play Burt, a Kennedy-esque lawyer who's winning at life and is a name partner at a firm, ......

Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn & Michael Mando Cast In ‘Breaking Bad’ Prequel Series ‘Better Call Saul’

Edit IMDb 08 May 2014
... by The Kohner Agency and Don Spradlin, will play Burt, a Kennedy-type lawyer; Seehorn will play an attorney named Beth; and Mando will play Spanish-speaking career criminal Eddie....

Michael McKean Cast in the Breaking Bad Prequel Better Call Saul: Find Out Who He's Playing

Edit E! Online 01 May 2014
Roles that have yet to be cast on the prequel? Beth, a successful lawyer who's had a hard life which is complicated by her romantic entanglements with somebody else at the firm; Burt, a "Kennedy type" who's winning at life and is a name partner at a firm; Eddy, a smart and calculating criminal, and Zach and Luke, twin ......

Ann-Margret shares John Wayne memories before fest

Edit Star Telegram 22 Apr 2014
Ann-Margret and Ben Johnson, who co-starred with John Wayne in The Train Robbers, were both up for Oscars when the movie was filming in 1972. But they were on set in Durango, Mexico, more than 1,300 miles away from Los Angeles when the Academy Awards ceremony took place ... “The man was just colossal ... Directed by Burt Kennedy, The Train Robbers is a low-key Western made when Westerns were beginning to be unfashionable in Hollywood....

Better Call Saul: Meet the Characters in the Breaking Bad Spinoff

Edit E! Online 03 Apr 2014
Better Call Saul is assembling its A-team. The Breaking Bad spinoff starring Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks is set to premiere this fall, but not before getting its cast in order. The AMC drama is on the hunt for lawyers to support Odenkirk's Saul Goodman. Among them.. Dr ... Burt, a "Kennedy type" who's winning at life and is a name partner at a firm. MORE ... NEWS....

DVD box set review: 'Combat - The Complete Series'

Edit The Oklahoman 09 Dec 2013
The story leapt into action immediately at the opening of every episode and continued with almost non-stop firepower throughout, the show was guided by such talented directors as the aforementioned Altman, Richard Donner, Burt Kennedy and Morrow himself, and the camera work was movie-quality, black and white in the first four seasons, color in the ......
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