The opening night film of the 2025 Lighthouse International Film Festival is “Americana,” a Western!
Westerns had their glory days between 1945 to 1965 when the genre comprised roughly a quarter of studio output, and that’s not even including numerous television shows such as “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Have Gun Will Travel,” “Bonanza” and the granddaddy of them all, “Gunsmoke,” which ran from 1955 through 1975.
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