Westerns have been a big part of American cinema for about as long as cinema’s been a thing. Even before sound movies were a thing, you had something like The Great Train Robbery (1903), which is neat to watch and consider how many people who might’ve seen it, upon release, would’ve been able to personally remember actual Wild West times (that film was set in the 1870s… so it’s a bit like a 2026 release taking place in 1996 or something). And beyond America, the Western genre has been popular, because you only need to look at The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and all the spaghetti Westerns to realize as much.

That doesn’t make Tombstone a spaghetti Western, but its director, George P. Cosmatos, was born in Italy to Greek parents, so…