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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 Leone’s Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood became a big enough hit that it conquered America i...

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 1956's Friendly Persuasion, and his reputation as a nice guy was key to hiding Norman's true nature from audiences. Though both director Alfred Hitchcock and his doomed star Janet Leigh were recognized by the Academy, Perkins was ignored. Joke's on them, though, because his nuanced take on the prototypical slasher remains a watershed of the genre. GEORGE C. SCOTT Dr. Strangelove (1964) Fewer actors had more antipathy for th...