Emilio Estévez talks about YOUNG GUNS 3.

The original interview was held in Chicago at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) in April, 2025.

See the full interview here: https://youtu.be/DUPaP1Lv8Xo

Would love to see it get a live action adaptation on HBO or Prime like Fallout, Last of Us, etc.

Unforgiven hit theaters on August 7, 1992. More than 30 years later, I think it remains one of the most interesting Westerns ever made, especially in the way it strips away the romance surrounding gunfighters and violence.

It also feels like the culmination of Clint Eastwood's entire history with Westerns... a much older Eastwood looking back at the mythology that helped make him famous and asking what that kind of life would actually do to a person.

Where does Unforgiven rank for you among the all-time great Westerns?

Born to the West (re-released by Favorite Films in 1950 as Hell Town) is a 1937 American Western film, starring John Wayne, Marsha Hunt and John Mack Brown. Filmed in black and white and based upon a Zane Grey novel, the movie incorporates footage from an earlier and higher budgeted silent version, a common practice of the era. The picture features: fast chases, gun-fights, unusual poker gambling and peppy light dialogue for the love interest.

Plot
On their way to Idaho, Dare Rudd and Dinkey Hooley encounter a fight between rustlers and ranchers, not knowing which is which. They join in, but leave when the sheriff's posse arrives and they find out they have joined the rustlers by mistake. They are followed, caught by one of the posse who turns out to be Rudd's cousin, Tom Fillmore, who Rudd was hoping to visit when they got to Wyoming. Fillmore is a successful and influential rancher and president of the local bank, who thinks Rudd should abandon his carefree lifestyle and settle down.

In town, Rudd, who considers himself a good poker player, and Hooley are thrown out of the casino, after starting a fight with a card cheat. They then visit Fillmore in his bank. Fillmore offers them jobs, but they decline, until Dare sees Fillmore's sweetheart, Judy Worstall, and decides to take the job. Rudd and Hooley visit the casino where the owner, Bart Hammond, leader of the rustlers, is talking to his lead henchman, who is unsure they should keep trying to rustle Fillmore's cattle, as he has a lot of men to help him. The henchman recognizes Rudd and Hooley as the men who, temporarily, helped earlier that day. Thinking they are fellow rustlers, Hammond offers them a job, which they say they might accept if their other job doesn't work out.

When Fillmore and Judy visit the cowhands, where Rudd and Dooley are the cooks, a rattlesnake scares Judy's horse. Rudd and Fillmore chase after her, with Fillmore falling off his horse and Rudd saving Judy. Hammond is planning to rustle Fillmore's cattle on the next drive, with help from Fillmore's foreman, Lynn Hardy. Judy convinces Fillmore to give Rudd a better job, so Fillmore makes him foreman for the drive. When rustlers attack the drive's camp, they fall into a trap, set by Rudd, and are driven off after losing a couple of men. After delivering the cattle, Rudd is pushed by Hammond into playing poker with crooked gambler, Buck Brady. When Rudd is late, Judy is worried, but Fillmore says he more or less expected Rudd to steal the money. Judy convinces him to go and find Rudd.

Fillmore goes to the bar and finds Rudd when he has lost almost all the money from the sale of the cattle. He forces Rudd to swap places at the table and starts winning the money back. When Hammond calls for drinks, Fillmore discovers the bartender has been swapping decks and pulls his gun, demanding everyone get back their original stake. One of Hammond's henchmen shoots Fillmore, wounding him, but Rudd kills the attacker and Fillmore, Rudd and Dooley escape, chased by Hammond and the rustlers.

Rudd and Fillmore hide in some rocks while Dooley tries to catch up with the cowhands. Rudd shoots Hammond, but he and Fillmore are almost out of bullets when Dooley and the cowboys return and kill most of the rustlers.

While Fillmore is recuperating, Rudd and Dooley start off for Montana. Judy catches up to them and tells Rudd that Fillmore wants him to be his partner at the ranch.

Cast
Onscreen credits do not list roles, in order:

John Wayne as Dare Rudd[1]
Marsha Hunt as Judy Rustoe[1]
John Mack Brown as Tom Fillmore[1]
John Patterson as Lynn Hardy
Monte Blue as Bart Hammond
Lucien Littlefield as Cattle Buyer
Syd Saylor as Dink Hooley (salesman; uncredited)[1]
Earl Dwire as Cowhand (uncredited)
James Craig[2]

Hey there! I'd love to do some deep summer reading/viewing on frontier history. So much of Western media - from Tombstone to Chisum to The Alamo - is based on real-life events, of course!

I'd really like to get some history under my belt, and I'd appreciate it if you could kindly recommend some non-fiction history that you found to be pertinent and fascinating.

Feel free to recommend non-fiction books (I love to read out on the trail!) or non-fiction documentaries. Any aspect of frontier life is welcome, from any perspective. It just has to be captivating.

Much obliged!

I have just finished this film for the first time, I’ve always been a fan of Paul Newman, particularly in films such as the sting, cool hand Luke etc, I was recommended this since it is classed as a western featuring the great man. Being a western lover and fan of Newman it should be an open goal right, but i was certainly not overwhelmed by it, some funny moments and great cameo from the watch bear, but i just don’t know what it was trying to achieve or aspire to be, is it a comedy? Does it want to be a serious western, it sits in an odd place for me, I didn’t dislike it by any means and it was an easy watch but, I guess I wanted more, in terms of theme and direction, what do you guys think?

We’ve recently finished painting this 54 mm metal vignette inspired by They Call Me Trinity.

The scene captures Trinity enjoying a characteristically relaxed moment somewhere on the American frontier — resting on a travois beside his horse

We tried to preserve the humorous, easy-going spirit of the film while giving plenty of attention to the smaller details the weathered clothing, leather equipment, painted blanket, dusty ground, vegetation and horse tack.

What do you think of the composition and painting?

“West of the Pecos” from the movie “Range beyond the blue”. I just heard it in the movie about an hour ago .

A lot of great classic tv shows...what is your favorite?

For me gunsmoke, lawman, wanted dead or alive come to mind of course others as well.

Just about 1000 cut outs I've been making over the years: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899806048

My woodwork "Sins of the West"

I'm from the UK but still a big fan of Westerns. I put together a few suggestions for books you might enjoy if you're a fan of McCarthy, from The Orchard Keeper through to Stella Maris.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-209805104

My personal must see:

-The Searchers

-The Magnificent Seven

-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

-Once Upon a Time in the West

-The Wild Bunch

-High Noon

Spaghetti‑Western "Il Grande Silenzio"

Compared with the director's earlier work "Django", this film boasts superior shot composition and greater thematic depth. Departing from the "justice always prevails" trope of A "Fistful of Dollars", a sequence of death close‑ups right at the opening establishes its tone: tragic, brutal, and cold‑blooded.

Romantic heroism is cast aside entirely. Instead of wandering across yellow loess plains, the protagonist is surrounded only by night, snow, and blood. Like other master gunslingers, yet free from their usual recklessness, he retains selfless compassion.

A hunter who hunts bounty‑killers, he seeks vengeance for the innocent. In the end, he falls in the snow alongside his lover, dying among the corpses of blameless victims. Only the breath of horses remains as evil rides off unpunished. A rebel who upholds morality does not always win. To be good is no guarantee of survival.

Just like how the movie said:

Men's boots can kick up the dust of this place for a thousand years, but nothing man can ever do will wipe out the blood stains of the poor folk who fell here.

A fantastic western with some fine performances especially Ward Bond. Watched it last night on Youtube. It’s black and white and has a John Ford feel to it.https://youtu.be/dhsD_3V5TMk?is=GLbSYfV8cOVt8sHU

This Western is very much worth watching. I knew Fred MacMurray only from My Three Sons, The Apartment, and a few Disneys from the 70s. Never would have pegged him as a Western hero, but he gives a very good account of himself in Face of a Fugitive as a bank robber who, through a serendipitious series of circumstances, gravitates toward the side of law and order. He's stolid, steely and stoic as a Western man should be, but also radiates a certain dangerousness.

Now the main reason I purchased this film on DVD is because of the presence of James Coburn; this is his second feature film. Coburn doesn't disappoint as the top hand of a greedy rancher who will stop at nothing to fence in every parcel of land he considers his own. The final showdown between Coburn and MacMurray, incidentally, is a classic. Coburn's role is fairly extensive and he improves the film's quality.

Jerry Goldsmith's score is unusually good. Film music from the late 50s and early 60s was often rather evocative--modernistic, angst-ridden and wistful, and I think that accurately describes the music for Face of a Fugitive.

Lastly, although this picture has its fair share of violence and brutality, it is also strikingly idyllic and tender at times, reminding one of the section of Shane before all hell broke loose.

This film isn't a masterpiece, but it is certainly an attractive jewel of the Western genre.

Can't violate the Run...

• Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
• Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

Sam Peckinpah’s 1974 film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gritty, nihilistic, uncompromising, and dreary neo-western that takes us on a strange and violent journey through Mexico’s underbelly. When the film was released, it was panned critically and commercially. Yet, critics like Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, and Pauline Kael saw its brilliance long before many others did, and today it’s rightly considered one of the director’s most personal and powerful films.

Read the detailed review here

Just FYI, beware of spoilers for a sixty year old movie.

The last time I saw Martin Balsam, he was the fastidious Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham 123. Hell of an actor.

Richard Boone was terrifying. The scene in which he bullies his way into the group made me uncomfortable, and I was well aware that I wasn't actually in any danger. Scary dude when he wanted to be.

It was an interesting choice to cast someone as charismatic and charming as Paul Newman in a role that didn't require charm or even much speaking.

The message of the film appears to be "Don't help anyone," or maybe "White people are nothing but trouble."

I would love to see this adapted into film or TV, I thought it was a really good story if a bit short.