Model behavior by special-effects champs the Lydecker brothers, Republic Pictures' secret weapon in the B-movie wars

Theodore Lydecker, left, and brother Howard Lydecker Brothers Howard Lydecker and Theodore Lydecker were old-school special-effects wizards ...

Hugh O'Brian — TV's Wyatt Earp — brings the Wild West's most famous lawman to the Iverson Movie Ranch

Hugh O'Brian Hugh O'Brian starred as frontier Marshal Wyatt Earp for six seasons on the TV Western "The Life and Legend of Wyat...

Cowboy star Rod Cameron roams the Iverson Movie Ranch in "Yaqui Drums"

Rod Cameron in the Iverson Grove in "Yaqui Drums" (1956) Actor Rod Cameron was all over the Iverson Movie Ranch during filming for...

Lee Van Cleef and Jim Davis in the Eucalyptus Grove

Lee Van Cleef in "Last Stagecoach West" (1957)  Lee Van Cleef was in so many Westerns it makes my head spin. And if the old Wester...