The Old Corral website is a research project in progress and dedicated to those wonderful cowboy heroes, heroines, sidekicks, heavies, and supporting players that rode the silver screen from the 1930s through the early 1950s in B westerns and cowboy cliffhangers.

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Dec 29, 2023 · B-Westerns helped gain prestige for the Western genre as older audiences embraced it, and they continue to resonate today with their fast-paced stories and charming characters. Before the Golden Age of the Western genre, the B-Western reigned supreme.

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Sep 26, 2023 · One of the earliest and most important versions of this phenomenon was the B-Western. As a precursor to the era which produced some of the greatest Westerns ever , it’s important to understand how it came about, what it’s main features were, and how it led to the Western in its current form.

Sep 20, 2024 · From Phantom Ranger to Riders of the West, these movies feature as many thrilling shootouts and unforgettable characters as mainstream Westerns.

A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood , this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature , somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music.

In the western town of Silver Lode, Dan Ballard is arrested for murder and theft by marshals, but he denies the charges and searches for the real culprit as the townsfolk gradually turn against him.

The western was by far the predominant B genre in both the 1930s and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the 1940s; for most of the Golden Age, westerns of every stripe accounted for 25 to 30 percent of all Hollywood feature production. [40]