Western - Movies

Showdown (1973)

Western

Hollywood legends Dean Martin, Rock Hudson and Susan Clark star in this unforgettable story of friendship and love in the American West. Though they were like brothers as children, Chuck Jarvis (Hudson) and Billy Massey (Martin) go their separate ways when Chuck marries Kate (Clark), the woman they both love. They find themselves on opposite sides of the law when Chuck becomes a sheriff and sets out to find Billy, who is now a bank robber. The final film for director and Academy Award® winner George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street), Showdown remains a Western favorite for movie fans everywhere.

The Hard Man

Western

Madison is a Texas Ranger who takes a job as deputy sheriff and quickly becomes embroiled in a range war against Greene, a rancher intent on taking over the whole range. He also begins an affair with French, Greene's wife, who wants Madison to kill her husband for her. She ends up doing the job herself.

The Sons of Katie Elder

Western

Katie Elder bore four sons. The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son, the gunslinger. Tom (Dean Martin) is good with a deck of cards and good with a gun when he has to be. Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one - nobody ever called him yellow...twice. Bud (Michael Anderson, Jr.) is the youngest. Any hope for respectability lies with him. Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit), an acknowledged master of the Western, the story has a dual theme: not only is this a he-man's story, but it is also a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, movingly portrayed from beginning to conclusion.

100 Rifles

Western

Un voleur et un shérif aident une révolutionnaire à sauver des Indiens.

The Bounty Hunter

Western

Bounty hunter Randolph Scott is on the trail of a trio of train robbers, but his work is cut out for him - the three are outwardly respectable citizens, somewhat beyond the arm of the law. Co-starring Academy Award-winner Ernest Borgnine ("The Dirty Dozen," TV's "The Single Guy").

Murder at Yellowstone City

Western

In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose (Gabriel Byrne) assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former slave who calls himself Cicero (Isaiah Mustafa). But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy (Thomas Jane) must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.

The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

Western

Academy Award-winners Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney star as two men on opposite sides of the law — the villainous Whip McCord and the man who's come to clean up the town and avenge the murder of his father, The Oklahoma Kid. 1893. Tulsa, Oklahoma Territory. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern) and his son Ned (Harvey Stephens) come during the Oklahoma land rush, but they run afoul of Whip McCord (Bogart), who runs Tulsa as a haven for drinking and gambling. When the Kincaids run for mayor and sheriff of Tulsa, McCord has the elder Kincaid lynched. But McCord never counted on Kincaid's other son, Jim (Cagney)—known as The Oklahoma Kid—coming to town in search of vengeance in this sometimes comic Western.

Red River Range

Western

The cattlemen's organization calls upon the Three Mesquiteers. Stoney Burke (John Wayne) rides into town with Tuscon Smith (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune) to pose as outlaws to round up cattle thieves who cleverly cover their tracks and vanish.

The Naked Spur

Western

Oscar-nominated story stars Academy Award-winner James Stewart ("It's A Wonderful Life," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Vertigo") as a driven bounty hunter in pursuit of a ruthless outlaw, Oscar-nominee Robert Ryan ("Crossfire," "The Wild Bunch," "Bad Day at Black Rock"), and his beautiful girlfriend, Oscar-nominee Janet Leigh ("Psycho," "Touch of Evil, "Little Women"). Filmed in the stunning Rocky Mountains, it is considered by many as one of the best westerns ever made. Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

Dakota

Western

In 1871 Dakota, the two crooked businessmen Jim Bender and his henchman Big Tree Collins, oppose the local wheat farmers and the railroad development, in order to control the town of Fargo. Under John Devlin's (John Wayne) direction, the farmers organize and rise up against the gang and engage in a fierce shootout in the midst of wheat fields set ablaze by the gang.

Badland

Western

More than a decade after the Civil War, a nation tries to rebuild as an outlaw faction takes root across the West. Gunslinging detective Matthias Breecher (Kevin Makely) is hired by one of the first African American Senators (Tony Todd) to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals (Trace Adkins, Bruce Dern and Jeff Fahey), with nothing more than his wits and his revolver. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman (Mira Sorvino) who is far more than she seems. As the lawless converge on this lawman, death is inevitable in a terrain that welcomes no stranger.

The Proposition

Western

In this gritty Western written by acclaimed songwriter Nick Cave, a lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother. Starring Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone and John Hurt.

Hiawatha

Western

Attacked by a bear while scouting the Dacotah territory, Ojibway warrior Hiawatha (Ben Casey's Vince Edwards) is nursed back to health by Minnehaha (Yvette Duguay), the daughter of the tribe's arrow maker. Falling in love, the two marry and return to the Ojibway village, where hotheaded brave Pau-Puk-Keewis (Keith Larsen) incites a war between the two nations. Learning his mother died because of the chief of the Dacotahs, Hiawatha is forced to choose between his tribe and his squaw's in this action-packed frontier adventure. Directed by Kurt Neumann (Kronos, The Fly), Hiawatha was produced by Walter Mirisch, Allied Artists' head of production. Cofounding The Mirisch Company in 1957 – producers of Some Like It Hot , The Great Escape and dozens more – he continued to make films under his own name as well, including Man of the West, Hawaii and In the Heat of the Night, the 1967 Oscar® winner for Best Picture.

Seven Men From Now

Western

The hunt is on for seven men. Seven murderous rogues who robbed a Wells Fargo freight station of $20,000, killing a clerk in the process, Ex-lawmen Ben Stride (Randolph Scott) is the man determined to track down those seven men, for it was his beloved wife who was murdered during the heist. During his quest, Stride encounters a struggling, California bound pioneering couple (Walter Reed, Gail Russell) as well as an old nemesis, Masters (Lee Marvin), with whom Stride shares an uneasy alliance. All will find themselves swept into the drama of Stride’s search for frontier justice. Guns blaze and deception abound in this rugged drama, with Scott perfectly cast as the stoic, no-nonsense Western hero.

Hot Lead and Cold Feet

Western

This saga of the old west involves twin brothers who compete for possession of a rickety cow town founded by their father while a crooked mayor tries to put an end to the competitors so he can inherit the town himself.

Justice

Western

It's 1868 and the Civil War has been over for three years. An old, abandoned mine is now being transformed into a military stronghold by a corrupt mayor and a band of bloodthirsty outlaws hell-bent on reigniting the war. When a U.S. Marshal comes to town only to find out that his brother, the town priest, has been murdered, his search for the killer leads to an inevitable clash that becomes a life or death struggle for a much greater cause.

Colt .45

Western

A gun salesman (Randolph Scott) becomes a gunslinger when his merchandise falls into the wrong hands. To recover his six-shooters from outlaws, he must beat them at their own deadly game. Co-starring Lloyd Bridges ("Tucker," "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid").

The Thicket

Western

When fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Juliette Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Together they embark on a perilous quest to track down Cutthroat Bill that leads them into the deadly “no-man’s-land” know as… The Thicket.

Western Union

Western

Randolph Scott plays outlaw Vance Shaw who decides to change his ways and work for the growing Western Union company. His brother continues to pursue the life of an outlaw, even going so far as to try and sabotage the telegraph company as they lay down lines between Omaha and Salt Lake City. With the help of a Western Union executive Richard Blake (Robert Young), Scott attempts to keep the growing and important company out of the clutches of an immoral businessman (Dean Jagger). Western Union was adapted from a story by the noted western writer Zane Grey.

Ned Kelly

Western

In this rousing, fact-based tale of the Australian frontier, Mick Jagger makes his screen debut as a notorious outlaw who heads a band of Irish gunslingers as they try to outrun British authorities.

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