The Outcasts of Poker Flat

If there's one thing that turns my stomach, it's respectability.

By the 1950s the western itself could be said to have attained something very close to respectability. Mind you, the relative dearth of awards bestowed on the genre, even in these peak golden years, possibly contradicts that. If respectability hadn't entirely been conferred or, as the above quote from Miriam Hopkins' character asserts, wasn't even something worth angling for, it would be hard to deny the popularity the genre was experiencing. There are all sorts ...