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Paxton Holley and Michael May sit at the campfire to talk Westerns in film and other media.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHellbent for Letterbox is hosted by Michael May and Paxton Holley. The show has published 207 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "El Grito de la Muerte (1959)" (30 October 2026, 57 minutes), "Rust (2024)" (4 September 2026, 42 minutes), and "The Lone Ranger (2013)" (26 August 2026, 69 minutes).
Hellbent for Letterbox publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 72 minutes across 207 episodes.
Booking probability for Hellbent for Letterbox is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hellbent for Letterbox requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hellbent for Letterbox's contact route on record: verified email.
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Michael May and Paxton Holley hosts Hellbent for Letterbox, a tv podcast with 207 episodes published.
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For our second horror masterpiece this Halloween, Michael and Pax welcome back their Crestwood House podcast compadre Shawn Robare to talk about the Mexican film, El Grito de la Muerte , also known in English as The...
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Michael and Pax talk about Rust , the Alec Baldwin Western with a tragic behind-the-scenes history. It almost wasn't completed, but completed it was, so we discuss not just its past, but also how it turned out.
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Mike and Pax delve into the kind of a mess Disney Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.
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Mike and Pax dig into this 1968 western based on a Louis L'amour novel starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.
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Michael and Pax revisit one of Michael's childhood favorites to see if it holds up. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was a cultural phenomenon in its day, but is it as good as all its sequels, TV show, and lunchboxes...
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Pax and Mike seek out the 1966 revenge adventure Nevada Smith starring Steve McQueen, Brian Keith, and Susanne Pleshette. We also talk a bit about the movie The Carpetbaggers from 1964 where the Nevada Smith character...
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Michael and Pax finally visit the podcast's namesake (more or less): George Sherman's Hell Bent for Leather starring Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, and Stephen McNally.
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Mike and Pax discuss the Walter Hill directed Wild Bill starring a cast of thousands including Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, and John Hurt.
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For the second time in Hellbent history, Michael accidentally picks a non-historical Western. This time he has Pax join him on a 1940s dude ranch for Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Gabby Hayes in Don't Fence Me In .
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In this episode Pax takes Mike to Lincoln County New Mexico and they talk about the misadventures of John Wayne as Chisum!
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Michael and Pax finish a double-feature of 2017 Westerns with Scott Cooper's Hostiles , starring Christian Bale, Wes Studi, and Rosamund Pike.
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Mike and Pax discuss the 2017 western Ballad of Lefty Brown starring Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Jim Caveziel, and Tommy Flannagan.
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Michael and Pax welcome back Shawn Robare to finish this year's spooky season double-feature. We're watching the little-known The Devil's Mistress about a gang of ruthless outlaws who stumble across the wrong cabin on...
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Mike and Pax are joined by their Crestwood House co-host to talk about the horror western Ravenous from 1999 starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle.
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It's been on our list a long time, but Michael and Pax finally get around to talking about Appaloosa , directed by and starring Ed Harris. It also stars Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons, and is based...
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In this episode Mike and Pax finish up a Willie Nelson double header with Red Headed Stranger from 1986.
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Michael and Pax watch one of Michael's favorite '80s Westerns, Barbarosa starring Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, and Gilbert Roland.
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Mike and Pax cover another Peckinpah. Will they love it or hate it? Listen to find out!
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Thanks to a listener's suggestion, Michael and Pax watch Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, and Brian Keith in Rudolph Maté's The Violent Men . The movie also features Dianne Foster and Richard Jaeckel. It...
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In this episode Mike and Pax talk about a twisty western comedy called There Was a Crooked Man starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Warren Oates, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, and John Randolph.
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