Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

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Paul Newman, Robert Redford, & director George Roy Hill on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (via)

Paul NewmanRobert Redford, & director George Roy Hill on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (via)

Luis Enríquez BacalovDjango Theme (instrumental) (Django: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Katharine Hepburn in The Sea of Grass (1947, dir. Elia Kazan) (via)

Katharine Hepburn in The Sea of Grass (1947, dir. Elia Kazan) (via)

Ennio Morricone - Theme From ‘A Fistful Of Dollars’ (A Fistful Of Dollars: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Elmer BernsteinMain Titles (The Magnificent Seven: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 

Paul Newman & Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill)

Paul Newman & Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill)

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) (via)

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) (via)

Ennio Morricone - The Big Gundown (The Big Gundown/La Resa dei Conti: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Tyrone Power in publicity still for Jesse James (1939, dir. Henry King) (photographer: Frank Powolny, via)

Tyrone Power in publicity still for Jesse James (1939, dir. Henry King) (photographer: Frank Powolny, via)

Grace Kelly & Gary Cooper on the set of High Noon (1952, dir. Fred Zinnemann) (via)

Grace Kelly & Gary Cooper on the set of High Noon (1952, dir. Fred Zinnemann) (via)

Tex Ritter - Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’ (written by Dimitri Tiomkin) (High Noon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952, dir. Fred Zinnemann)

Gary Cooper in High Noon (1952, dir. Fred Zinnemann)

Paul Newman on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill ) (photo by Jimmy Mitchell, via)

Paul Newman on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill ) (photo by Jimmy Mitchell, via)

Sergio Leone, Eli Wallach, & Clint Eastwood on the set of The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) (via Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone)
“I am bringing back the action Western. The cowboy picture has got  lost in psychology. There have been too many attempts to explain the  motives of both the heroes and the bad men and to make them  understandable and acceptable in modern terms. The West was made by  violent, uncomplicated men and it is this strength and simplicity that I  try to recapture in my pictures.”
-Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone, Eli Wallach, & Clint Eastwood on the set of The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) (via Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone)

“I am bringing back the action Western. The cowboy picture has got lost in psychology. There have been too many attempts to explain the motives of both the heroes and the bad men and to make them understandable and acceptable in modern terms. The West was made by violent, uncomplicated men and it is this strength and simplicity that I try to recapture in my pictures.”

-Sergio Leone

Alfred Newman - How The West Was Won: Main Title (via How The West Was Won: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)