jOIN uS FOR THE wESTERN hERITAGE & Film Festival!

We are setting into action our festival’s mission: To promote Rim Country's Western culture and history through films, events, and activities, attracting both residents and visitors of all ages. At the same time, we will be supporting the World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo the following weekend! Most of what we are planning will be centered on Payson’s historic Main Street. Our four-day event, running August 7-10, will include: 

• Eight varied western movies from different time periods and directors, with introductions, shown Thursday - Saturday at the Sawmill Theatre:

STAGECOACH

Starring Claire Trevor & John Wayne

Directed by John Ford-1939

One of the Greatest and most influential films ever made!

Thursday, Aug 7 12 Noon!

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford & Katherine Ross

Directed by George Roy Hill - 1969

AFI's 7th Greatest Western Film

Thursday Aug 7, 2 PM

Rio Bravo

Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan & Ward Bond.

Directed by Howard Hawks - 1959

Filmed in Old Tuscon Studios , AZ

Friday, Aug 8 11 AM

Junior Bonner

Starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker & Ida Lapino

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - 1972

Warmest & most gentle of Peckinpah's films

Friday, Aug 8, 2 PM

Little Big Man

Starring Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey & Richard Mulligan

Directed by Arthur Penn - 1970

An American Revisionist Western Film

Friday, Aug 8, 2 PM

Tombstone

Starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn & Dana Delany 

Narrated by Robert Mitchum

Directed by George P Cosmatos -1993

A Cult Classic!

Saturday Aug 9, 2 PM

The Wild Bunch

Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson & Warren Oates

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - 1969

One of the Greatest films of all time!

Saturday Aug 9, 6 PM

Silverado

Starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Jeff Goldblum, Lynne Whitfield & Linda Hunt

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan - 1985

Sunday Aug 10, 4 PM

• Cowboy Poetry at Noley's Thursday night 
• On Friday, a 5-hour student field trip, lunch included, to the Calico Springs Studio in Kohl's Ranch for participation in actual filming 
• On Friday night, a public dance at Macky's with a fabulous local country western band
• On Saturday, a ticketed luncheon at the Rim Country Barbeque with speakers Bob Boze Bell - publisher of True West Magazine, and Stuart Rosebrook - Director of the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott.  They will be comparing and contrasting other films to Tombstone, which will be shown immediately following at the Sawmill Theatre across Main Street.
• Sunday from 12 noon to 4 pm, our "Sunday Doin's" event -- free fun for the entire family at the Zane Grey Museum and surrounding grounds at Green Valley Park! We will have:
  • Artist, Gold Sponsor, and western apparel and accessories booths; Territorial Troupers performing; museum activities and displays and free tours; Tonto Apache Tribe’s exhibit; the Payson Pro Rodeo Exhibit; food vendors including a chuck wagon, Apache Fry Bread, Mexican Tacos, Danseizen Ice Cream, and Kona Ice; a rock and a mining display; FAA students running stick horse and chicken races as well as dummy roping lessons; a water relay and other relay races, pony rides in a carousel; country music playing; DJ making announcements, including sponsor thanks

Image Right: by Deb Schwalm