50 Greatest: Westerns

Author Barry Stone Has Served His Apprenticeship As A Western Movie Geek And Aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River -- For 50 Years The Western Has Been The Only Genre In A Life That 'Just Ain'T Big Enough For Two.' He Has Written On The History Of Cinema For The Illustrated Reference Book Historica, Is A Regular Attendee To Western Premieres For Fox Studios Australia, And Was Recently A Guest Of The Museum Of Western Film History In Independence, California. Intrigued By The Idea Of Frontier Wilderness, Of Law And Order Versus Lawlessness, And A Firm Belief That 'The Better The Bad Guy, The Better The Film, ' He Goes Beyond The American Southwest To Pay Homage To The Italian And Even Australian Western -- And, After Much Deliberation, He Ranks Them In Order.