Saddle up for a visit to the most notorious town in the West, where a certain infamous showdown happens day after day ...

Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, one of the first narrative films ever made, released in 1903, laid out the tropes and conventions of the western genre. Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon introduced ...

For an avatar, look to Hollywood’s Will Kane, the marshal of the town of Hadleyville, played by Gary Cooper in the great western “High Noon.” The murderer whom Kane once jailed has been ...