Watch Rio Bravo

John Wayne becomes a star at the Monument Valley pass; Ford invents the modern western.

Gary Cooper waits for the noon train alone, in real time, with a town that will not help.

John Wayne's five-year hunt for his kidnapped niece through Monument Valley, and the doorway shot.

Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.

A twelve-game campaign west across nineteenth-century North America, where each session changes the board for the next one.

The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.

Three prospectors in Mexico and what gold does to them; "we don't need no stinking badges".

Clint Eastwood with a poncho and a cigar; the spaghetti western begins.