When the musical series lapsed in 1948, Nazarro concentrated on the Starrett Westerns, now featuring the Durango Kid character.
He was also entrusted with more ambitious Western stories, with an emphasis on action but also a serious, elegiac view of the West, like Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951) starring Dan Duryea.
Budd Boetticher, who had been a bullfighter, told his life story to Nazarro when he was working for him as an assistant director.
Boetticher says he wrote it down, and Nazarro typed it up and sold the project to Dore Schary at MGM.
[9] In the late 1950s, with the market for B-Westerns drying up in America, Nazarro restarted his career in Europe, making spaghetti Westerns.