ANSON MOUNT INTERVIEW -- ‘HELL ON WHEELS’ SEASON 2

On Sunday, August 12^th, at 9 p.m., HELL ON WHEELS, AMC’s smash Western series from last year, returns for Season 2.  If you missed any of Season 1, or want to refresh your memory, AMC is running all ten Season 1 episodes starting Sunday morning at 11 a.m.  And if you’re one of those unfortunate DISH customers who no longer have AMC, go to the AMC website and you can stream HELL ON WHEELS on your computer!

The title HELL ON WHEELS refers to the movable town that crossed the nation during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, its saloon-keepers, prostitutes and gamblers servicing the construction crew.  The protagonist is Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate veteran with no prospects who hires on, considered to be a valuable man because, as a former slave owner, he knows how to ‘work with’ black people.  But he has his own unspoken agenda: his wife and child were murdered by a group of Union soldiers, and it is his mission to identify, track down, and kill them all.  His work for the railroad provides an excellent cover.

Cullen Bohannon is portrayed by Tennessee-born, Columbia University educated Anson Mount, who has made a tremendous impression in the role.  He previously starred in the series CONVICTION, THE MOUNTAIN and LINE OF FIRE, and his features include the recent STRAW DOGS remake, BURNING PALMS, and the upcoming SUPREMACY and CODE NAME: GERONIMO.         On Wednesday morning I had the opportunity to talk with Anson about his new season in Hell (On Wheels).  Anson says that whereas Season 1 was mostly plot-driven, Season 2 will be character-driven, and the stories will revolve around the keyword to the Season, ‘ambition’.  When discussing the challenges of continuing a series over multiple seasons, his frequent touchstone is BREAKING BAD, which he calls, “The best show that’s ever been made for television.”

Anson Mount & Common

We’ll continue to see interplay between Cullen and Elam Ferguson, the ex-slave played by rapper-turned-actor Common.  “I think it’s becoming the most interesting relationship in the series.  From the very beginning, Common and myself and the writers were very adamant; we were not going to allow this to become Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.  (laughs)  You know – ‘the black guy and the white guy are gonna be buddies!  And everybody’s gonna love each other!’  We wanted to be very true to the tropes, the stereotypes and the conflicts at that time.  Particularly between a former slave and a former Confederate.  And yet allow them to meet in situations where they have to meet on equal footing.  And I think we did a really good job of that in the first season; I think we’ve done an even better job of that in the second season.” 

Memorably, Season 1 ended with Cullen killing the wrong man.  “I decided long before Harper was going to turn out to be the wrong man, when Cullen does get to put his hands around the throat of someone, when he completes the deed, it’s not going to be the release or relief that he thought it was going to be: it’s a deeper hollowing out of himself.  He finds that there’s actually nothing there.” 

Henry – Your character is consumed with rage, and on a quest for revenge.  Was that hard to walk away from at the end of a shooting day?  And is it hard to return to it after the hiatus?

Anson – No (laughs), not at all.  Sometimes I feel like I’m launching a one-man campaign to change people’s minds about what we do as actors.  I think there’s a big misconception that actors are these shamans who channel characters and notions, and that we are somehow mortally affected by our work.  And I think that there are a lot of actors that play into that, because it makes them and their work seem more important.  It’s not the case at all.  We play make-believe.  I think it’s a process of playing intelligently, and playing well, but it’s a process of play.  And if I’m doing anything else, I’m not doing my job, and I need to spend time in the loony-bin.  It’s an enormous amount of fun for me, and I continue to have a great time this season.  And I’ve been having a good time finding ways of lightening Cullen up a bit, because I think we need to see different facets of him.

Henry – Did you grow up with westerns?  Do you have favorites, either past or recent?

Anson – Oh yeah, absolutely!  I’m a big Sergio Leone fan.  I really liked the remake of 3:10 TO YUMA.  It certainly is a helluvah lot better than the original.  I know some people had a problem with it but I thought it was a fantastic film. 

Henry – In what ways do you think it was better?

Anson – (incredulous) 3:10 TO YUMA?  Have you ever seen the original?

Henry – I know them both very well.  I like ‘em both.

Anson – The original plays out in very few locations; it’s very staid.  It plays almost like a teleplay, or a ‘play’ play.  And I think the plot demanded those action sequences that happened in the second film, that weren’t really played out that well in the first.  I just liked the pacing and the rhythm and the style; I thought the performances were fantastic. 

Henry – If you could give yourself the lead in any western film of the past, what would it be?

Anson – I would love to have played the (Schofield) Kid in UNFORGIVEN.  Jaimz Woolvett did such a great job; wonderful. 

Henry – How do you feel about horses and guns?  Any experience with either prior to HELL ON WHEELS? 

Tom Noonan & Christopher Heyerdahl

Anson – Oh man!  Yes, it’s the best part of the job, getting to ride a horse.  I grew up in the rural South, so I’m comfortable on a horse, but I’ve never operated a horse around a camera, which is a whole different skill-set.  Luckily we have really good, experienced wranglers who are able to teach me the ins and outs of that.  And the guns – we have an amazing armorer named Brian Kent, who has a wonderful antique gun collection himself – he can tell you anything you want to know about guns of the 19^th century – so we’re blessed with that.

Henry – What is that pistol you usually handle?

Anson – The one from the first season was a Griswold, which was a Confederate issue sidearm; and this season I lose that, and I end up having to use a Union issue sidearm, which was the 1857 Remington .45 caliber.   

Awkward!

Henry – Which do you prefer, a studio kind of picture, or one where you’re outside and away from civilization?

Anson – I prefer where we’re shooting (outdoors).  You know, we’ve got a studio here, because we don’t have a lot of darkness, and sometimes we need to go into the studio for that.  But I think we’ve only used the studio five or six days the entire season, so far, and I think the next two episodes are pretty-much going to be entirely shot on location.  I prefer being out; even though it’s a commute -- it’s almost an hour each way -- but it’s so gorgeous where we are this year, and you can’t build what we have out there.  It’s 40,000 usable acres of ready-to-go set.  And there’s so much that the weather gives you, that the land gives you.  And I just like being removed from civilization when I’m doing a western. 

We’re in Alberta.  Our location is about an hour southeast of Calgary.  We started earlier this year (than last).  We thought we were going to be doing the first two or three episodes with snow on the ground.  It ended up not happening that way: they didn’t have any spring snows.  Quite dry.  So it was a bit chilly at first, but we didn’t have to deal with the torrential downpours and hip-deep mud we had last year.  And we’ve had hail-storms.  We’ve had a couple of days where we had to stop because of that.  But we’re lucky, and we’ve got a brilliant director of photography, Marvin Rush, who somehow manages to make the light match, even though there are days when we’ll start in sunshine, then we’ll have cloud cover, then it’ll rain, it’ll hail, then the sun’ll come out, then it’ll go back in.  (laughs) Somehow he manages to make it all work. 

Henry – I was wondering if your story was going to cross any more than it has with Eddie Spears’ character, Joseph Black Moon.

Anson – You know, we’re actually talking about that.  I haven’t really had a lot of interaction with Eddie’s character so far this season, but there’s about to be a bit in number 9, which we’re about to shoot.  And Eddie’s character, Joseph, is continuing to question his place in this world.  Because his adopted father has taken to the bottle again, his ongoing affections for his adopted sister are newly brought into question, and he wonders if this is the right move to make, to be in this white man’s world.

Henry – Looks like you’ll be more involved with Colm Meany’s character – is that correct?

Anson – Well, Colm character is running the business that I end up working for, and he and I have two very different ideas about leading, and so by necessity we have a lot more head-butting this season. 

Henry – How many seasons do you see the show running?

Anson – I’ve heard five thrown out there; I wouldn’t mind six.  When you add together all the outlying projects that had to be completed when the rails were connected, it was a six year engagement.

Colm Meany & Dominique McElligot

Henry – So you see the series as actually paralleling the construction of the railroad.

Anson – I would like to.  I know you don’t necessarily need to, but I would like to.  There’s never been talk about getting into the Central Pacific side of the story; the whole contest between the two companies; the involvement of the Asian-American work-force.  You just can’t tell the entire story without getting the Central Pacific, and that opens up a whole new bag of worms in terms of story-telling.  And we haven’t even started drilling through the Rockies (laughs) – that’s a huge part of the story.  And then, we’ve also been talking about a season 7 in Utah, involving Brigham Young, and that’s a fascinating part of the story of the construction that I’d like to spend an entire season on. 

Henry – It sounds like you’re passionately interested in the actual history.

Anson – Oh yeah.  I’ve been doing my research. 

Henry – Would you be interested in doing another Western?

Anson – Yes.  In about another ten years I want to play (abolitionist) John Brown.  I think that’s a story that’s waiting to be made.  Now watch – somebody’ll pick up on this and they’ll hire Willem Dafoe to do it.   

WANT TO HELP FINISH A WESTERN 29 YEARS IN THE MAKING?

In 1983, nearly three decades ago, Rick Groat and his family and friends set out to make an old-fashioned black & white western.  In a vintage interview on ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, Rick brags that his $15,000 movie will look like it cost a half million! 

Sadly, after a successful film-festival work-print screening, the movie, THE SHOOTING, was never seen again.  Now, filmmaker Rick Groat, who acted in 2010's 6 GUNS, is trying through KICKSTARTER to raise the $9,500 he needs to complete the film.  If you know the Kickstarter system, you know that the project will only be funded if all the money is committed within a limited time.  As I write, Rick has only eight days to go, and only $650 of his $9,500 committed. 

I was going to write about this project next week, but I figured it might be of more use to Rick if I did it right now, while there’s still time.  To learn more, visit HERE, where you can read more about the film, and see Rick’s presentation. 

That’s it for tonight, pardners.  I wanted to make sure you had a chance to read the Anson Mount interview before Season 2 of HELL ON WHEELS starts.  Next week I’ll have another ‘rush’ story about the Museum of the San Fernando Valley.  And if you want to visit it, you’ll have to be quick, because it’s closing at the end of the month!

Happy Trails,

Henry

All Original Contents Copyright August 2012 by Henry C. Parke – All Rights Reserved

IT’LL BE HELL ON WHEELS WHEN MEEK’S CUTOFF MEETS REDFORD’S CONSPIRATOR!

Three major new Westerns, two for the big screen and one for the small, are growing on the horizon! And all are based on historical fact!

MEEK’S CUTOFF

MEEK’S CUTOFF will open on the day taxpayers crave a distraction most, April 15th. The story of a wagon train lost in the Oregon desert in 1845, the film stars the beautiful Michelle Williams of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN fame, fresh from her Oscar-nominated turn in BLUE VALENTINE. Co-starring is Paul Dano, who startled audiences by playing two roles in 2007’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and who will soon be seen in COWBOYS & ALIENS. Also in the cast is stuntman/actor Rod Rondeaux, whose legendary work with horses can be seen in almost every important Western of the last few years, and who played Roman Nose in INTO THE WEST (2005). The film is directed by Kelly Reichardt and written by Jonathan Raymond, whose previous collaboration, OLD JOY (2006) received strong critical notices. You can see the trailer for MEEK’S CUTOFF HERE.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3293026841/

(photos top to bottom: poster and still from Meek's Cutoff; poster and still from Conspirator; still from Hell On Wheels; National Day of the Cowboy poster; WestFest poster and two shots from last year's Rodeo; Kim Darby and John Wayne in True Grit; Kim Darby when I met her and she smiled real nice but still wouldn't give me an interview; Chief John Yellow Flower of the Utes; Chief Keokuk of the Sac & Fox)

THE CONSPIRATOR

Set to open on the same fateful day, and more to the point, the day in 1865 that the President succumbed to his wounds, is THE CONSPIRATOR, the story of the trial of Mary Surratt, one of those accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Lincoln, and the attempted murders of Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. Historians have never reached a consensus on Mary Surratt’s guilt or innocence (I think she was guilty as Hell). Directed by Robert Redford, who won the directing Oscar for ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980), and was nominated for QUIZ SHOW (1994), the screenplay is by James D. Soloman, from a story by Soloman and Gregory Bernstein. The film stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, James MacEvoy as her lawyer, Rachel Evan Wood as her daughter, with Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkerson, Alexis Bledel and Danny Huston. To see the trailer for THE CONSPIRATOR, click HERE.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3695417881/

HELL ON WHEELS

AMC, reportedly delighted with the pilot, has ordered a full season (with the pilot that makes ten episodes) of HELL ON WHEELS. The story is set just after the Civil War, during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad – the title refers to the make-shift, portable towns that sprung up along the way to service the railroad-workers’ needs. It stars Anson Mount as an ex-Confederate whose quest for revenge has led him to a job on the railroad. Rapper and DATE NIGHT star Common plays a freed slave, and also in the cast are Colm Meany of Star Trek fame (and also in CONSPIRATOR) and Eddie Spears of INTO THE WEST and the up-coming YELLOW ROCK. The series is being shot in Alberta, Canada, with financial help from the Alberta Film Development Program. The pilot is directed by David Von Ancken, who brought you SERAPHIM FALLS (2006). It’s created and written by Joe and Tony Gayton, brothers known for big action movies like BULLLETPROOF (1996) and FASTER (2010). An airdate has not yet been announced.

NATIONAL DAY OF THE COWBOY RIDES THROUGH NEW MEXICO!

Another state gets with the program, designating July 23rd to be the National Day of the Cowboy. As Santa Fe campaign-worker Richard Beal reports, the events of Wednesday, March 2nd, “Representative Brian F. Elgof talked for five minutes about the history of NDOC and why he thought it was important. The clerk then read the resolution. About 20 legislators stood up and told storoies about how their grandfather had been a cowboy, or they were a rodeo queen back in the day, etc., and each thanked Egolf for doing this and honoring the many cowboys in New Mexico. At the end, they presented us (NDOC) with the official certificate and the entire legislation sang Home on the Range.” Incidentally, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is still recovering from the assassination attempt against her, has been a longtime supporter of NDOC.

On Monday March 7th, in Austin, Texas, the legislature will be meeting on the same matter. If you’d like to take part in this movement to make the National Day of the Cowboy an official national holiday, visit the official website HERE, and find out if your state is on board yet.

http://www.nationaldayofthecowboy.com/cms/

PALM SPRINGS ‘WESTFEST’ MARCH 24TH-27TH

There’s going to be so much going on at the Palm Springs Convention Center from Thursday through Sunday that I hardly know where to begin. There will be a PRCA Rodeo every day – including bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, barrel racing and bull riding; the Twangfest musical festival; Western Design Expo; a rodeo parade; barbecue; chili cook-off; a carnival; a Gene Autry Film Fest; talks by Bob Boze Bell of True West Magazine; talks by John Wayne co-star Eddie Faulkner remembering the Duke…. So much more than I can’t begin to fit it all in here – and aside from the rodeo, admission to everything is just five bucks a day! Also, although they officially say Westfest starts on March 24th, their event schedule starts on March 20th. CLICK HERE to go to the official site and learn more!

http://palmspringswestfest.com/index.php/home

KIM DARBY'S NOT TALKING

Apparently I lack grit. When I met Kim Darby recently I snapped a picture (see left), and asked for an interview. She referred me to her manager, who just called and told me, “Sorry, but no. I just got off the phone telling U.S.A. Today the same thing.” I can’t really blame her – with the huge success of the Coen Brothers’ TRUE GRIT remake, Kim has spent the last four months answering questions about the original film she made in 1969 with John Wayne and Henry Hathaway. She feels there’s nothing I can ask her about TRUE GRIT that she hasn’t answered a dozen or more times, and maybe she’s right. (I’ll try again later, with some really obscure and pointless questions like what kind of shoes Strother Martin wore, just to be different.) But if you’d like to get her take on the movie, CLICK HERE to visit her website, and follow the links to several recent interviews.

http://www.kimdarby.com/

ON THE TUBE

HAPPY TRAILS THEATER ON RFD-TV THURSDAY, MARCH 10TH

When Roy Rogers heard that Cole Porter had written a Broadway musical parody of B westerns, but couldn’t get it financed, he contacted Cole, and bought the theme song, which was the genesis of DON’T FENCE ME IN (1945), the story of reporter Dale Evans’ search for retired outlaw Wildcat Kelly. It also features great non-Cole Porter songs like The Last Roundup and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, and the cast includes Gabby Hayes, Robert Livingston, and one of the greatest of all screen gangsters, Marc Lawrence. At RFD-TV they pre-empted the Saturday morning airing, and the midnight one as well -- something with a title like The Country Family Reunion is returning to that slot, so the only time to catch DON'T FENCE ME IN is Thursday at 2:30 pm eastern and 5:30 western. I've sent an inquiry to the good folks at RFD-TV to ask, what gives?

COMING ATTRACTIONS – EVENTS IN MARCH

UCLA EVENTS AT THE BILLY WILDER THEATRE

Screenings as part of their Preservation Festival include, on Saturday, March 12th, a double bill of RAINBOW OVER TEXAS (1947) starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and HEART OF THE RIO GRANDE (1942) starring Gene Autry and the lovely Smiley Burnette. On Monday, March 14th, it’s THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE (1941) from a screenplay by John Steinbeck, preceded by MEXICO IN THE HEARST METRONONE NEWS COLLECTION. And on Saturday, March 19th at 2:00 p.m. they will present the program BABY PEGGY: HOLLYWOOD’S TINY TITAN. The daughter of a cowboy and stuntman, Baby Peggy, co-starring with Brownie the Wonder-Dog, was a hugely popular star of Western child action comedy films in the 1920s. Few of her films have survived, but Baby Peggy has – she’s now known as Diana Serra Carey, and she will be present for the screening of several of her short films, and existing fragments of several more. (Here’s a historical note: a Baby Peggy film was the first movie to play at the Vista Theatre in Hollywood when it was opened in the early 1920s. The theatre was built at the intersection of Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, where the Babylon sets for D. W. Griffith’s INTOLERANCE once stood. Over the decades the theatre and neighborhood lost its luster, and the Vista became a gay porn theatre. When it was turned into a revival house in the 1980s, Baby Peggy, who had attended the original opening decades before, attended the new ceremony, where gay porn director Fred Halsted handed the theatre keys over to her.)

LOS ANGELES SPAGHETTI WESTERN FESTIVAL MARCH 19th!

The historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood will play host on Saturday, March 19th to the Los Angeles Spaghetti Western Festival. This all-day event will feature live music, screenings, and some very special guest stars, leading men Robert Woods (GATLING GUN, read our review HERE -- read our interview with Woods HERE); Michael Forest (NOW THEY CALL HIM SACRAMENTO, read our review HERE); Richard Harrison ($100,000 FOR RINGO); Brett Halsey (WRATH OF GOD); Dan van Husen (LIGHT THE FUSE…SARTANA IS COMING) and Jack Betts –a.k.a. Hunt Powers (DJANGO AND SARTANA), as well as actor, stunt coordinator and Western historian Neil Summers. The movies to be screened will include the one that started it all, Sergio Leone’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, plus GATLING GUN (courtesy of Dorado Films – click HERE for their site) and DEAD MEN DON’T COUNT (courtesy of Wild East productions – click HERE for their site). A live musical tribute to Ennio Morricone will be presented by The Insect Surfers, playing music from the album FOR A FEW GUITARS MORE. You can save $10 if you register before February 28th, WHICH IS TOMORROW! For all the details, go to the official website HERE.

PAPERBACK COLLECTOR SHOW AND SALE SUNDAY, MARCH 27th

If you’re a reader of Westerns as well as a watcher, here is an event you should not miss! From 9:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. you can search the wares of dozens of book dealers from around the country. They run from the very rare and pricey to the battered and cheap. Serious paperback collectors go for unopened books in perfect condition, but I go for what are disparagingly called ‘reader copies,’ and have found dozens of obscure Luke Shorts and Zane Greys for a dollar or two each. Also, more than 45 authors will be signing their books, and unlike other autograph shows, THERE IS NO CHARGE! Most of the authors are sci-fi and mystery types – for a complete list and schedule, click HERE. The event is at the Valley Inn and Conference Center, 10621 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills, CA 91345. For more information, call Tom Lesser at 818-349-3844 or Black Ace Books at 232-661-5052.
http://www.la-vintage-paperback-show.com/

BREAKING INTO WESTERN PRINT (BOTH ‘E’ AND PAPER) MARCH 27TH

If you’ve ever wanted to write a western novel or story – of if you’ve written it, but don’t know how to get it published (my hand is raised), make plans to go to Out West, at 24265 Main Street in Newhall on Sunday, March 27th at 2:00 p.m. Author C. Courtney Joyner, the very talented and prolific screenwriter and western film historian, will discuss breaking into the western print market, agents, editors, networking, the changes at Leisure Books, ‘E’ publishing, university presses, contests, and publishers across the pond. Mr. Joyner knows whereof he speaks: in addition to a long string of screen credits, both as writer and director, he wrote the fascinating interview-book THE WESTERNERS (see my review HERE), and his excellent tale, The Two-bit Kill, is featured in the new western story collection, LAW OF THE GUN. The event is free. For reservations call 661-255-7087.

THE AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER

Built by cowboy actor, singer, baseball and TV entrepeneur Gene Autry, and designed by the Disney Imagineering team, the Autry is a world-class museum housing a fascinating collection of items related to the fact, fiction, film, history and art of the American West. In addition to their permenant galleries (to which new items are frequently added), they have temporary shows. The Autry has many special programs every week -- sometimes several in a day. To check their daily calendar, CLICK HERE. And they always have gold panning for kids every weekend. For directions, hours, admission prices, and all other information, CLICK HERE.

HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE MUSEUM

Across the street from the Hollywood Bowl, this building, once the headquarters of Lasky-Famous Players (later Paramount Pictures) was the original DeMille Barn, where Cecil B. DeMille made the first Hollywood western, The Squaw Man. They have a permanent display of movie props, documents and other items related to early, especially silent, film production. They also have occasional special programs. 2100 Highland Ave., L.A. CA 323-874-2276. Thursday – Sunday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. $5 for adults, $3 for senior, $1 for children.

WELLS FARGO HISTORY MUSEUM

This small but entertaining museum gives a detailed history of Wells Fargo when the name suggested stage-coaches rather than ATMS. There’s a historically accurate reproduction of an agent’s office, an original Concord Coach, and other historical displays. Open Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. Admission is free. 213-253-7166. 333 S. Grand Street, L.A. CA.


FREE WESTERNS ON YOUR COMPUTER AT HULU

A staggering number of western TV episodes and movies are available, entirely free, for viewing on your computer at HULU. You do have to sit through the commercials, but that seems like a small price to pay. The series available -- often several entire seasons to choose from -- include THE RIFLEMAN, THE CISCO KID, THE LONE RANGER, BAT MASTERSON, THE BIG VALLEY, ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, and one I missed from 2003 called PEACEMAKERS starring Tom Berenger. Because they are linked up with the TV LAND website, you can also see BONANZA and GUNSMOKE episodes, but only the ones that are running on the network that week.

The features include a dozen Zane Grey adaptations, and many or most of the others are public domain features. To visit HULU on their western page, CLICK HERE.

TV LAND - BONANZA and GUNSMOKE

Every weekday, TV LAND airs a three-hour block of BONANZA episodes from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. They run a GUNSMOKE Monday through Thursday at 10:00 a.m., and on Friday they show two, from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m.. They're not currently running either series on weekends, but that could change at any time.

NEED YOUR BLACK & WHITE TV FIX?

Check out your cable system for WHT, which stands for World Harvest Television. It's a religious network that runs a lot of good western programming. Your times may vary, depending on where you live, but weekdays in Los Angeles they run DANIEL BOONE at 1:00 p.m., and two episodes of THE RIFLEMAN from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.. On Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. it's THE RIFLEMAN again, followed at 2:30 by BAT MASTERSON. And unlike many stations in the re-run business, they run the shows in the original airing order. There's an afternoon movie on weekdays at noon, often a western, and they show western films on the weekend, but the schedule is sporadic.

Well, March is sure shaping up to be a busy month for Western fans. Hope you're enjoying it!

Adios,
Henry

All Contents Copyright March, 2011 by Henry C. Parke - All Rights Reserved