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Will Penny

Western

Hollywood legend Charlton Heston stars as Will Penny, an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak. He's out of work, out of money, and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws. Moments before death, Will is taken in by a beautiful young woman named Catherine ( Joan Hackett), who is heading west with her young son to join her husband. As Catherine nurses Will back to health, he catches a glimpse of a lifestyle he's never known. Suddenly, Will has two more problems to deal with: he's in love with another man's wife, and the outlaw gang is on its way back to finish him off...

Ringo and his Golden Pistol

Western

In this action-packed Italian Western, explosions punctuate the Mexican countryside as a quick-shooting bounty hunter named Ringo flushes out ruthless bandits. Ringo is hired to nab an outlaw leader, but he ends up taking on the entire gang and demolishing half of Coldstone City with dynamite before the situation is resolved.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Western

An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man in this hardboiled post-Civil War adventure written by noir legend Daniel Mainwaring (Out of the Past) and starring Frank Lovejoy (In a Lonely Place) and James Best (The Dukes of Hazzard). Beaten and forced out of town by the corrupt state police of Texas, Kit Caswell (Best) heads to the hills where he meets the notorious desperado Cole Younger (Lovejoy). Becoming fast friends, the two take jobs on a cattle drive, unaware that a jealous rival (Jan Merlin) with eyes on Caswell's girl (Abby Dalton) has falsely accused him of murder. So when Caswell is arrested and Younger slips away, only the testimony from the outlaw himself can save Caswell from the hangman.

$10,000 Blood Money

Western

In Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 Blood Money (1967; a.k.a. $10,000 for a Massacre), Gianni Garko - best known for his portrayal of supernatural gunslinger Sartana - takes on the part of another beloved western antihero, Django, who is on the trail of bandit Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso, A Bay of Blood). But what started as a job for hire soon turns personal, with Django swearing vengeance against the unscrupulous outlaw.

Seminole (1953)

Western

Army officer Lance Caldwell is a Florida native with deep ties to the Everglades and a childhood friendship with Seminole chief Osceola. As tensions rise between the military and the Native Americans, Caldwell turns to his old ally for help. But when Osceola is killed, Caldwell is accused of the crime and must risk everything to prove his innocence.

Apache Uprising

Western

Riding along through the post-Civil War Arizona territory, mustanger Jim Walker is jumped by two Apaches. Saved by the veteran scout and old friend, Bill Gibson, the two head for Apache Wells to warn the townspeople who are too busy to listen. They are engaged in running Jean MacKenzie out of town because she is rumored to have caused the death of her wealthy husband ans his former fiancee. At the same time, renegade Vance Buckner is plotting with two gunslingers to rob the Butterfield Stage and kill all witnesses at the first way station. Despite Apache warning, the Butterfield Stage, at the insistence of its district manager, thunder out of town with Jim riding shotgun for driver Charley Russell. Rescueing an injured Chief Antone, they make their way to the station to be met by Buckner. Jim and Charley reveal the identity of their injured pasenger and point out they are more valueable alive than dead. Escaping, Jim is discovered by a young Apache chief and explains the situation. They let Buckner escape to save their prisoners, including Antone. However, they followed and demand Bucker who bears the scar of dishonor for murdering squaws and their children. In return, they grant a truce until sundown, as Jim, Janice and Charley head the Butterfield Stage toward Lordsburg and a new future.

Django, Prepare a Coffin

Western

Django the drifter returns in this classic Sixties Spaghetti Western from Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Addio, Comin At Ya!), starring Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) as the wandering gunslinger, hired as executioner to a corrupt local politician who is framing innocent men, sending them to hang in an evil scheme to take hold of their land. But Django has other ideas and, cleverly faking the deaths of the condemned men, he assembles them into a loyal gang who'll help him take down the boss, a man who had a hand in the death of Django's wife years before. Thrill as Django gets his bloody revenge with a hail of bullets in this classic from a series of B-movie western that helped to define a genre. Prepare your coffin now!

Raw Edge

Western

In a lawless Oregon town in 1842, a rancher's "laissez-faire" hiring policies backfire when he learns that several of his ranch hands plan to kill him, take over his property and claim his widow-to-be.

Backlash

Western

Hardened wanderer Jim Slater rides the range, seeking to avenge his father's death. He meets Karyl Orton, a frontier widow whose husband died in the ambush and who is now being pursued by gunslinger Johnny Cool. As the unlikely duo faces attacks, Slater begins to suspect that his father died from something more sinister than an apparent Apache ambush, and he soon discovers the shocking truth.

Companeros

Western

Yodlaf Peterson (Franco Nero of KEOMA) is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money. Vasco (Tomas Milian of TRAFFIC) is a trigger-happy Mexican bandit with a hate for suave Swedish arms dealers. But when the two team up to kidnap a professor who holds the key to a fortune in gold, they find themselves hunted by the American army, stalked by a marijuana-crazed sadist (Academy Award winner Jack Palance) and trapped in the middle of a revolution about to explode. Can these two enemies blast their way across Mexico together without killing each other first?

Hellfire

Western

Martin Scorsese Presents REPUBLIC REDISCOVERED—over 20 rarely seen films from the storied Republic Pictures library, restored and remastered by Paramount and personally curated by Martin Scorsese. In Hellfire a reformed gambler-turned-preacher, partners with a pretty, female fugitive outlaw, runs into an old pal who is also a marshal and they both fall for the same bad gal. Republic staff cinematographer Jack A. Marta uses the studio’s unique two-color Trucolor process to create a stylized world of shifting orange and blue.

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay

Western

After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.

Bury 'Em Deep

Western

Seeing visions of Hell and wanting to redeem himself, a violent gunslinger goes to dig up his buried loot to save a beautiful nun's orphanage, but when he is bushwhacked and left for dead, he battles the rage inside him and inner demons as he sets out on a trail of revenge.

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Western

When Sam Bass arrives in Denton, Texas, he immediately earns the suspicion of the Sheriff and the admiration of his kind-hearted sister, Katherine. Sam also catches the eye of Calamity Jane, who is impressed by his winning techniques with her prized horse Thunderbolt. Sam makes a large sum of money in a race but jeopardizes everything when he becomes involved with a notorious team of outlaws.

Bend of the River

Western

Glyn McLyntock, a former outlaw-turned-wagon train scout, leads a group of farmers to Oregon, with the help of Emerson Cole, a notorious horse thief. Upon reaching Portland, McLyntock discovers that a supplies trader has cheated the settlers out of their winter provisions. To reclaim the supplies, McLyntock must face off against the double-crossing Cole.

Man from God's Country

Western

"This is raw country... gun country," grumbles ornery freight magnate Beau Santee (Frank Wilcox). And sure enough, the irons start blazin' when lawman-on-the-lam Dan Beattie (George Montgomery) ambles into the sleepy town of Sundown. Beattie's looking for war buddy Curt Warren (House Peters, Jr.) - but finds only a beaten, broken man who's terrified of big boss Beau. No stranger to danger, Beattie poses as a reviled railroad agent ("You might as well paint a target on your back," the sheriff quips.) and dallies with Warren's dame to dig up the dirt on Santee. In no time, the two Civil War comrades are face to face on Main Street - but Sundown's big showdown sparks an even bigger shootout. This taut, exciting Western shows that even God's Country has a dark side.

The Lawless Breed (1953)

Western

After being released from prison in 1896, former outlaw John Wesley Hardin publishes his autobiography in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation and to prevent his son from following in his footsteps.

Lawless Range

Western

Brothers, Sean and Tommy Donnelly live and work on a family ranch in Texas. Tommy has always been troubled and Sean has always been there to help him. But when Tommy gets himself deep in debt to a dangerous gang, Sean finds that not only is his relationship to his brother at risk, but his own family is threatened.

The Great Silence

Western

A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, as a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

Find a Place to Die

Western

In Giuliano Carnimeo's Find a Place to Die (1968), Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers) plays Joe Collins, a disgraced former soldier who assembles a ragtag band of scoundrels. They are lured into helping a woman (Pascale Petit, A Queen for Caesar) to rescue her prospector husband, who is trapped at their gold mine cave-in - though in reality, they have designs on the gold strike themselves.

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