Title: Spaghetti Western
Content: them. Joe Hamman starred as Arizona Bill in films made in the French horse country of Camargue 1911–12. In Italy, the American West as a dramatic setting for spectacles goes back at least as far as Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera "La fanciulla del West"; it is sometimes considered to be the first Spaghetti Western. The first Italian Western movie was "La Vampira Indiana" (1913) – a combination of Western and vampire film. It was directed by Vincenzo Leone, father of Sergio Leone, and starred his mother Bice Walerian in the title role as Indian princess Fatale. The Italians also made

Title: Western (genre)
Content: plot development to develop these basic plots into believable stories. Other subgenres include: In the 1960s and 1970s, the Western was reinvented with the revisionist Western. "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), Edwin S. Porter's film starring Broncho Billy Anderson, is often cited as the first Western, though George N. Fenin and William K. Everson point out that the "Edison company had played with Western material for several years prior to "The Great Train Robbery". " Nonetheless, they concur that Porter's film "set the pattern—of crime, pursuit, and retribution—for the Western film as a genre." The film's popularity opened the door

Title: Western (genre)
Content: and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout or quick-draw duel. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre from the early 20th century to the 1960s. Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Ford's landmark Western adventure "Stagecoach" became one of the biggest hits in 1939 and it made John Wayne a mainstream screen star. Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time, including "High Noon" (1952), "Shane" (1953), "The Searchers" (1956), and "The Wild Bunch" (1969). Classic Westerns such as these have been

Title: Western (genre)
Content: using "frontier justice". Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds. Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era (1894-1927). With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and producers. These smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. By the late 1930s, the Western film was widely regarded as a "pulp" genre in Hollywood, but its popularity was dramatically revived in 1939 by major studio productions such as "Dodge City" starring Errol Flynn, "Jesse James" with Tyrone

Title: Western (genre)
Content: for Anderson to become the screen's first cowboy star; he made several hundred Western film shorts. So popular was the genre that he soon faced competition from Tom Mix and William S. Hart. The Golden Age of the Western is epitomized by the work of several directors, most prominent among them, John Ford ("My Darling Clementine", "The Horse Soldiers", "The Searchers"). Others include: Howard Hawks ("Red River", "Rio Bravo"), Anthony Mann ("Man of the West", "The Man from Laramie"), Budd Boetticher ("Seven Men from Now"), Delmer Daves ("The Hanging Tree", ), John Sturges ("The Magnificent Seven", "Last Train from Gun

Question: What was the first movie western called?
Answer: Kit Carson