New at Classic Movie Hub: A "B" Western Sampler, Vol. 2

This month I celebrate my fifth anniversary writing the Classic Movie Hub Western RoundUp column. The old cliche is true: Time sure flies!

In my newest column I return to a topic I also wrote about last summer, "B" Westerns. I take a look at a quartet of short movies I watched on a recent road trip to the Sierras.

It was a fun group of films starring Bob Steele, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, John Wayne, and "Wild Bill" Elliott, with leading ladies including Anne Jeffreys and Cecilia Parker. George "Gabby" Hayes coincidentally turned up in all four films!

Fun things about these movies included a blimp, Ben Johnson in a bit as a messenger, a glimpse of Lone Pine's historic Dow Villa Hotel, and Yakima Canutt warming up for a famed later stunt in STAGECOACH (1939). There are almost always interesting things to see and learn in the most minor of films.

Please click over to Classic Movie Hub to read it -- and sincere thanks to all my readers for supporting my Westerns column for the past half decade!

Previous Classic Movie Hub Western RoundUp Column Links: June 2018; July 2018; August 2018; September 2018; October 2018; November 2018; December 2018; January 2019; February 2019; April 5, 2019; April 30, 2019; May 2019; June 2019; July 2019; August 2019; September 2019; October 2019; November 2019; December 2019; January 2020; February 2020; March 2020; April 2020; May 2020; June 2020; July 2020; August 2020; September 2020; October 2020; November 2020; December 2020; January 2021; February 2021; March 2021; May 2021; June 2021; June 2021 (No. 2); July 2021; August 2021; September 2021; November 2021; December 2021; December 2021 (No. 2); January 2022; February 2022; March 2022; April 2022; May 2022; June 2022; July 2022; August 2022; September 2022; November 2022; November 2022 (No. 2); January 2023 (No. 1); January 2023 (No. 2); March 2023; April 2023; May 2023 (No. 1); May 2023 (No. 2).

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