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Some were/are actual operating RR's most were standard gauge but some were broad gauge and others were narrow gauge like the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway, Durango, Colorado, that one was used in quite a few Westerns, "Night Passage" with Jimmy Stewart is a good example where it was used a lot, "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kidd" and "Support Your Local...

Yeah, dam that Lemmon lucky git Spike "A lot of undisciplined, half witted, ulacabuchas"

More reading! I will happily check out those magazines. "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

O'Brien's Mystery Ranch is a great gothic western with Charles Middleton (Ming the Merciless) as the mad ranch owner with delusions of grandeur and the great Noble Johnson as his mute angel of death. O'Brien is such a handsome likeable guy that virtually anything he is in is at least watchable. "You can't send a kid like this up in a crate like that on a night like tonight!"

Indeed it is. Just wondering if you have ever heard of a magazine called, "Guns Of The Old West?" As a former member of the SASS/CAS, this mag was a great source of info for me. Not only for the articles on gear and weaponry, but each issue featured two articles about the great old 'b-movie' cowboys of the past. George was featured once as was the likes of Wayne Morris, Bob Steele, Lane Chandler, Jim Bannon, Jack...

....Aaron Copland should figure quite prominently into the development.

@OP Nope it's a good one. You just missed the point. BTW the title is The Man who shot Liberty Valance. IMO a great name. Have you seen Cheyenne Autumn? I would like to know if you prefers Cheyenne over Liberty Valance. "Well, nobody's perfect."

What were the railroads they used, were they preservation/heritage lines or regular lines that were or are used for modern freight? Tracks such as those in High Noon, Night Passage, The Wild bunch, Support Your local Gunfighter, Breakheart Pass and Once upon A Time in the West to name just a few and these are just off the top of my limited knowledge of tracks, there are probably better examples. Do some exist today, are they the same gauge as...

I saw this in the cinema when it was released and its no great shakes. Very small cast and no town scenes to speak of-- it struck me as very low budget. Used to seeing Roger Moore on TV as The Saint and also in the classic Maverick he appears here with a ridiculous Irish accent. Don't hold your breath.

I've wondered about that myself. Dimitri Tiomkin has already been mentioned, but there are others whose work is quite different. A lot of classic western scores are rooted in the American folk tradition, very British-Celtic in origin, given the rousing wild west treatment, but it's there, clearly, in many a western movie score. Some western scores shows the influence of Mexican music, very brassy, noisy, energetic, exciting,...