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Robert Hinkle's career started in earnest in the spring of 1955, when the self-described "two-bit" actor from Brownfield, Texas, got a phone call from the Famous Artists Agency asking him to sit down with George Stevens, the director of Shane , A Place in the Sun , and Gunga Din .

In the nineteen-fifties, Fred Zinnemann and George Stevens tried to freeze the Western genre into a single archetypal film, while directors like Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann were taking it in bitter new directions.

Actress Beverly Washburn poses with her pets, Harriet, top left, Howard and Cookie, a standard poodle, at her home in Henderson on Friday.

I have some confessions to make, not because any of you readers are particularly interested in my views; but rather because I think some of you are in the same boat: Have you stopped reading, listening, watching, and paying attention to most of what now passes for establishment public or popular culture? I am not particularly proud of this quietism ...

Unlike the last time he watched "Shane" at the Ritz Theatre in Wellington, Darryl Morris had not just got cleaned up and ridden into town from the family farm with his dad, Lewis, for the Saturday matinee.

The 70s, 80s, and 90s were the heyday of the Post-Apocalyptic narrative. From movies to video games to role playing games there was an explosion of Post-Apocalyptic entertainment available.

It Happened One Night , Directed by Frank Capra The wealthy and rebellious Ellie Andrews has just married the rich debonair socialite King Westley , when her disgruntled father steals her away to his yacht.

The Genesee Theatre's return to showing movies drew around 250 fans of "Sunset Boulevard" on Saturday, a number comparable to what might fill a single theater at a multiplex.

For the week of Sunday, Aug. 30, through Saturday, Sept. 5. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

Two timeless western films, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and SHANE, will be shown at the Lyric Theatre free of charge to the public courtesy of The Lyric Theatre and the City of Stuart Community Redevelopment Agency.

Director George Stevens has sometimes been unfairly dismissed as a maker of "prestige" mainstream movies .

Half a century ago, Millie Perkins was a rising young New York model whose beauty had graced the covers of Vogue, Glamour and Seventeen.

TOP PICKS "The Diary of Anne Frank" : The grade-school literary fave got a '50s movie adaptation courtesy of director George Stevens, who was then fresh from "Shane" and "Giant." "The Seventh Seal," "Bergman Island" : Criterion reissues one of the first titles they put on DVD, with both a two-disc standard DVD and a very welcome Blu-ray; "Island," ...

The dining room at the Old Coupland Inn is filled with big wooden tables and high-backed spindle chairs a home-style restaurant ready for a crowd.