Bad news, Sedona movie fans. The Russian film archive Gosfilmofond’s much-heralded gift to the U.S. of a digital copy of The Call of the Ca...

Even though Monument Valley has less than four minutes of screen time in Stagecoach , it made an indelible impression on Moviegoers in 1939...

Forget the legend. Monument Valley wasn’t unknown to Hollywood before 1939’s Stagecoach , and director John Ford only “discovered” it in th...

Monument Valley and Sedona share a unique distinction – thanks to the movies, both symbolize “the West” in the American subconscious and to ...

In Bernard Eisenschitz’s 1993 biography Nich­olas Ray: An American Journey , Johnny Guitar ’s credited screenwriter Philip Yor­dan (who may ...

In 1948, popular folksinger Burl Ives was one of the main selling points for RKO Radio Pictures when it was promoting Station West , the par...

I uncovered a lot of obscure facts while researching my book Arizona’s Little Hollywood , but one of the most unexpected finds was a gushing...