The short story is the bread and butter of the Western genre. Plenty of classic Western films—such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rio Bravo, to name a few—were adapted from ...

John Wayne turned down a Western movie later in his career that could have been his best Western since True Grit. Instead, he appeared in some lesser-remembered Westerns to wind down his career, none ...