If the ‘80s saw the late Bill Paxton emerge as a prolific character actor, then the ‘90s were the decade when he established himself as a compelling leading man . The Texas-born star went from scene-stealing wild men in The Terminator , Aliens , and Weird Science to a critically acclaimed performer on HBO’s Big Love and the History Channel’s Hatfields & McCoys . In the years between these seminal performances, Paxton teamed up with ’80s heartthrob Rob Lowe to humanize the infamous James Brothers in 1994’s Frank and Jesse .
Lost in a time when films such as Young Guns , Tombstone , and Unforgiven played their part in reviving a fading Western genre in Hollywood, the little-seen Robert Boris film was quietly released on HBO as