cowboy picture

But one part of the classic cowboy picture was missing: horseback riding.

Stratton comments in his admiring and informative account of the making of “The Wild Bunch,” Holden had realized that “this was not going to be just another cowboy picture.”

In his red Western shirt, kerchief and hat, he creates a cowboy picture that’s almost too perfect.

He said the idea for an all-black cowboy picture came to him while touring the South as a singer in the mid-1930s and visiting tin-roof movie theaters meant for black audiences.

"I haven't waited all these years to do a cowboy picture with Wayne to give up a single moment of it now," she said.