Christopher P. Jacobs

There were quite a few silent-era serials but their heyday was the 1930s and 40s, with the genre dying out theatrically in the 1950s with the coming of TV.

The Scar’ is an archetypal example of the genre right down to the dialogue line, ‘It’s a bitter little world full of sad surprises, emblematic of this film noir

Representative examples of each cowboy star’s Republic work made their high-definition debuts this spring on Blu-rays from Kino Video.

Two major-studio westerns from 1949 and 1950 demonstrate almost diametrically opposite approaches to help shift public attitudes.

The audio quality is extremely good, with a new pipe organ score recorded by Fargo-Moorhead organist David Knudtson.