By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched...

Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman. Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, was confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun. When he turned to films, he was determined to make authentic Westerns, rather than the fakery of Tom Mix & other Western movie stars of the day. The only problem was that no one wanted to see his non-stars...