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Dale Evans and Roy Rogers Sage in " Gold en Stallion. Robert Taylor tn scenes from his two Westerns — above, with John Hodiak and Arlene Dahl in "Ambush," and on the right, with Paula Raymond in " Devil's Doorway," filmed almost entirely on location in Colorado. Hi- m* On the whole, Westerns have provided but comparatively few comedies, although Bob Hope, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers have with the Riders all made us laugh in burlesques. Take the Stage of the Purple is a recent Western comedy. It had an 1880 Arizona setting and mixed three bank robbers (Walter Brennan, Rex Lease and George Lewis) in with a travelling repertory company (Vincent Price, Donald O’Connor, Eve Arden and Gale Storm) with hilarious effect. New Mexico in 1880 was the setting for a new star, Audie Murphy, who played the notorious bandit, Billy the Kid, in The Kid from Texas, a role in which Robert Taylor scored a few years ago. The High Sierras were his hiding-place in his next film, the Technicolor Sierra. the story of a son’s fight to clear his father's name of murder, in which Wanda Hendrix starred opposite him. Randolph Scott, another star who after playing a variety of film roles is now chiefly known for his work in Westerns, went to the High Sierras for The Nevadan, the story of a U.S. marshal who became fast friends with the man he was sent to capture. In this Cinecolor film, George Macready, the villain of The Contact Man and Hounded, had his first Western role as a rancher—still as villainous as ever. The bad men of the West, the notorious outlaws who helped to write its history in blood, have often been portrayed on the screen, and by some of the biggest stars. Recently Gregory Peck appeared as Jimmie Ringo in The Gun Fighter, based on the real-life character of John Ringo. The film began where most of the films dealing with such characters are about nine-tenths finished. It showed us a gunman who begins to regret his outlaw career. Longing to be reunited with his wife and son and to make amends for his neglect, he comes to realise that his past has for ever cut them off from him. Most of the film took place in the three hours that elapse between the time he arrives in the little town where his wife lives under an assumed name until his death from the bullet of a youngster out for notoriety. Gregory Peck grew a moustache of the 1890 fashion for the part, practised gunmanship for several weeks, and incidentally rose considerably in the estimation of two of his sons, young Jonathan and Stephen, whose own hero is Hopalong Cassidy. No tale of the white settlers’ advance across the North American continent can be told without men- tioning the Red Indians, who fought so desperately and unavailingly to preserve their grazing land and rivers which were life itself to them. The story of the covered wagons, and the subsequent building of the railways is one of scalping, shooting, burning—one of destruction as much Below : Chill Wills. Joan Leslie, James Craig and Jack Oakie in " Northwest Stampede." Left: Jean Parker and Gregory Peck in " The Gun Fighter." * AX