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Dean Jagger and Audie Murphy as father and son, with Wanda Hendrix in " Sierra." SKV TN all the constantly changing waves of popularity that have marked the progress of pictures, there is one type of film whose popularity has flowed steadily on—the Western. It may truthfully be said that ever since the first film cowboy chased the first film Indian there has always been a Western film in the making. Appreciated by lovers of action and adored by all small boys, the thrilling adventures of cowboys, Randolph Scott Indians, stage-coach robbers, bank thieves, in " The Neva- land-grabbers, cattle rustlers, sheriffs, marshals dan." The and ranchers and wranglers, in depicting the peaks of the eventual triumph of the forces of law and order High Sierras against the bad man, must have made can be seen in thousands of films. In 1949 alone no less than the background. close on a hundred Westerns were released in this country. Ever since Stagecoach showed that a Western picture, if treated as more than a glorified chase-and-battle, given good dialogue, well-drawn characters, a first-class cast and care in production and direction, can compare dramatically with any other, we have now and then been treated to some really fine Western dramas. And the long-established favourites like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Bill Boyd, who are as prolific as they are popular, and whose horses, Champion, Trigger and Topper, share their masters’ successes, can act as well as ride, although they appear in no other type of film now. It is interesting to note, however, that none of them Maureen O’Hara and Macdonald Carey are chal- lenged by Rick Vallin, as the son of a Comanche Indian chief, in "Comanche T erri- Ann Blyth and Howard Duff prepare to race their horses. Sage King and Black Velvet, in " Red Canyon." ^ UJESTERn