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Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Big Valley and Have Gun Will Travel on the TV dial. In Italy, TV was still a bit of a mess and so the people of Rome, Naples and Milan preferred to get their primetime entertainment in the local cinemas. Instead of begging Hollywood to give them more tales of the Wild West, the Italian producers found international actors that could ride horses and they rode off to Spain to create a hundreds of films that entertained the Western fans all over of Europe. Sergio L...

Psycho (1960) When he was cast as twitchy motel proprietor Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins was best known for his Oscar-nominated turn as the meek son of a Quaker farmer in 1956s Friendly Persuasion, and his reputation as a nice guy was key to hiding Normans true nature from audiences. Though both director Alfred Hitchcock and his doomed star Janet Leigh were recognized by the Academy, Perkins was ignored. Jokes on them, though, because his nuanced take on the prototypical slasher remains a wate...