J. Lee Thompson

English-born actor, writer and director J. Lee Thompson directed such classics as The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Taras Bulba and Kings of the Sun among his 50 film credits. He directed two Planet of the Apes films, plus the Westerns The White Buffalo (1977) with Charles Bronson and MacKenna’s Gold (1969) with Gregory Peck. He wrote and directed 10 to Midnight and produced several films as well including 1965′s John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. Thompson passed away on August 30, 2002 in British Columbia, Canada.

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Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.