Some movies, such as The Outlaw (1943), Wild Wild West (1999 ... according to Collider. This 1932 pre-Code Western is directed by Fred Allen for Warner Brothers and stars a 25-year-old John Wayne as ...

Westerns are one of the oldest film genres initially established in the Silent Era by trailblazing directors such as John Ford, D.W. Griffin, and Roaul Walsh. Once the Talkies came around, Westerns ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...