I love a good Western. When I made our list of the best westerns ever made, I spent a few weeks in heaven watching all sorts of different versions of these films, but a few stuck with me.

Following a spat between Howard Hughes and Howard Hawks, this classic John Wayne movie almost never got released.

Roy Rogers, often referred to as the "King of the Cowboys," was one of the most popular Western stars of the 1940s and '50s.