Forty-one years ago today, a Western that featured a star-studded cast hit theaters and initially flopped at the box office. The 1985 film Silverado has gone on to be embraced as a classic of the ...

At the start of the 1980s, much of Hollywood believed the Western to be a dead genre. The box office at the time was largely dominated by sci-fi, action, and even horror projects with the slasher boom ...

Westerns were out of fashion in the 1980s — as evidenced by "Heaven's Gate" flopping at the box office — but some filmmakers weren't ready to let the genre ride into the sunset. "Silverado," "The Long ...

Its groundbreaking casting made the story feel more authentic, helping this overlooked classic earn lasting acclaim.