It’s outdated. It’s archaic.’ I read that, in 1914, when Hart approached Thomas Ince to bankroll his start in western films, that’s what Ince told him: ‘Nobody cares about western anymore.

William S. Hart Jr., son of the silent film star of the same name, has died. He was 81.Mr. Hart, who was his father ‘ s only child, died May 13 at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, said his wife, … ...