A Pistol for Ringo (1965) directed by Duccio Tessari

James Stacy was born Maurice William Elias 89 years ago today

By the 1960s, reproductions were becoming more common, specifically in Italy with manufacturers like Uberti making a variety of Old West gun replicas. Aldo Uberti founded his company in 1959 (the eve of the Civil War's 100th anniversary) & his first replica was the 1851 Colt Navy...

Happy Birthday to the late Frederic Forrest, born Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. 89 years ago today

Happy 57th Birthday to Dina Meyer

Happy 89th Birthday to Héctor Elizondo

Happy Birthday to the late Peggy Castle, born Peggy Thomas Blair 98 years ago today

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), directed by Robert Altman

Bib shirts were called fireman's shirts because they were favored by fire brigades. They often featured nautical designs embroidered on the "shield". Billy's has an anchor, which was pretty common. The 2nd pic dates to the Civil War, meaning this style lasted for over 15 years...

The Kid usually dressed like a Mexican Vaquero in a white shirt, black pants & a sugarloaf sombrero. Those who knew him said the tintype was a poor representation of his regular attire. In it he wears a cardigan, a bib shirt & an unknown style of hat with a punched in crown...

A 🧵 about the Dedrick Tintype, the only authenticated photo of Billy the Kid...

In 1934, Dudley Nichols co-wrote Frontier Marshal, based on Wyatt Earp's bio, starring George O'Brien. Nichols then wrote The Arizonian, also based on the Stuart Lake book, but w/o crediting him. The Arizonian was remade, w/o crediting Nichols, as The Marshal of Mesa City, starring George O'Brien

The Arizonian (1935) is an unofficial Wyatt Earp film & it has one of the more artistic takes on "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral":

Happy 88th Birthday to Jane Fonda

Happy Birthday to the late Frank Zappa, born 85 years ago today. Read about the time he got bullied by a drunken John Wayne:

Happy 77th Birthday to Samuel Leroy Jackson

Happy 59th Birthday to Kiefer Sutherland, born Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland

Happy 42nd Birthday to Jonah Hill, born Jonah Hill Feldstein

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The late Albert Dekker was born Thomas Albert Ecke Van Dekker 120 years ago today

Happy Birthday to the late George Roy Hill, born 104 years ago today

Happy Birthday to the late Irene Dunne, born Irene Marie Dunn 127 years ago today

Peter Kyne's saccharine 1913 novella The Three Godfathers inspired numerous adaptations. The 3 available versions are among the finest Westerns of all time. When John Ford's version is the weakest, you know you're in good company. Listen to me talk about them here: wrongreel.com/podcast/wr62...

In a deleted scene from For a Few Dollars More, "Monco/Manco" gets some personal time with the hotel owner's wife:

Happy 45th Birthday to Jake Gyllenhaal

Happy Birthday to the late Robert Urich, born 79 years ago today

Footage of Leonid Brezhnev meeting Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev was born 119 years ago today:

My Darling Clementine (1946), directed by John Ford The Wild Bunch (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah

My Darling Clementine (1946) directed by John Ford Stranger on Horseback (1955) directed by Jacques Tourneur Two Rode Together (1961) directed by John Ford

The Wild Bunch is considered one of the first films to put squibs on both sides of an actor's body to replicate entrance/exit wounds. Sam Peckinpah had previously shown the devastating effects of a bullet tearing through a body in this scene from his TV show The Westerner:

While filming The Wild Bunch, Bo Hopkins asked for the squibs to be taped directly to his skin so that he would give a naturally pained performance* *excerpt from W.K. Stratton's book on the making of The Wild Bunch

Happy 62nd Birthday to Brad Pitt, born William Bradley Pitt

Happy Birthday to the late, great Blaze Foley, born Michael David Fuller 76 years ago today

Happy Birthday to the late Ossie Davis, born Raiford Chatman Davis 108 years ago today

Happy Birthday to the late George Stevens, born 121 years ago today

A Fistful of Dollars is one of the most influential films of all time, particularly in its depiction of violence. However, it's often credited with innovating a specific way of filming gun violence that it didn't pioneer at all. A 🧵...

Happy 50th Birthday to Milla Jovovich, born Milica Bogdanovna Jovović

Happy 80th Birthday to Ernie Hudson

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Happy 50th Birthday to Giovanni Ribisi, born Antonino Giovanni Ribisi

Happy 72nd Birthday to Bill Pullman

Happy 77th Birthday to Wes Studi, born Wesley Studie

Carlo Simi's costume sketches for Harmonica, Frank & Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West

Happy 62nd Birthday to James Mangold

Happy 62nd Birthday to Benjamin Bratt

Happy 87th Birthday to Liv Ullmann

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Happy Birthday to the late, great A.P. Carter, born Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter 134 years ago today

Happy Birthday to the late Gordon Douglas, born Gordon Douglas Brickner 118 years ago today