Western - Movies

The Last Hunt

Western

Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis) and Stewart Granger (The Prisoner of Zenda) team up in this "grim, fierce, raw-boned outdoor fare" (Variety) filmed on location in rugged Custer State Park, North Dakota. Charlie Gilson (Taylor), a mean-spirited hunter, joins reserved Sandy McKenzie (Granger) on a great government-sanctioned buffalo hunt that will keep the buffalo population under control and make the men rich. Joining them are Woodfoot, an old one-legged skinner (Lloyd Nolan) and Jimmy (Russ Tamblyn) a half-Indian boy. But trouble begins to break the team apart when Charlie kills a group of Indians whom he accuses of stealing his horses. Charlie's subsequent mistreatment of the lone survivors – an Indian woman and her child – forces Sandy to realize that his partner is consumed with hate…and that he enjoys killing more than just buffalo. "Raw, real and rugged" (L.A. Examiner), The Last Hunt is so intense and powerful that its stark images will stay with you long after the film ends.

El Paso

Western

Charleston lawyer, Clay Fletcher, at the end of the Civil War goes to El Paso on a business mission and also to renew an old romance with Susan Jeffers who has moved there with her father, Judge Jeffers. He finds the Judge to be a confirmed drunkard and tool of the town’s hench-man, Sheriff La Farge. Susan’s loyalty to her father keeps Clay in town involves him in an attempt to fight by legal means the trumped-up trials and lawless land-grabbings that have terrorized the townspeople. When legal means fail, he learns to out-shoot and out-kill his enemies, rounding up his own vengeful group to rout the Donne-La Farge forces. Hangings and killings increase, the Judge and Clay’s aged grandfather are victimized, and Susan, revolted, turns against him. After the climatic battle between the two forces, in an inspiring finale Clay is bought to the realization that he must return to the due processes of law and order or there will never be an end to the killing.

The Undefeated (1969)

Western

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War, Union Calvary officer John Henry Thomas takes his heroic men west while southerner James Langdon takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross, they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickly tested as they get caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces, and find themselves fighting side by side.

Winchester '73

Western

James Stewart, Rock Hudson and Shelley Winters light up the screen in this timeless portrayal of the Wild West and the heroes who tamed it. Stewart plays Lin McAdam, a frontiersman who wins a Winchester rifle in a marksmanship contest. When the prize is stolen, he doggedly pursues it as it passes among a motley group of characters—including a crazed highwayman, a corrupt gunrunner, a savage young Indian chief and even his own dangerous brother—until the final, rousing shoot-out. Also featuring Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances, Winchester ’73 remains one of the western genre’s most enduring classics.

The Sea of Grass

Western

Jim Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land that he withholds from neighboring farmers. When his wife Lutie's brief infidelity is uncovered, Lutie and Jim must struggle to persevere as Jim raises their daughter, Sara, and Lutie's son by another man, Brock.

The Man Who Came Back

Western

Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family in this traditional western about one man who stood against injustice.

Angel and the Badman

Western

Quirt Evans, notorious gunman played by John Wayne, is wounded and on the run. He soon finds himself on a farm owned by a Quaker family, the Worths. Ignoring the advice of the town doctor, the Worth family takes Quirt and attempts to nurse him back to health. While being mended to at the farm, Quirt dreams of the day that he is able to seek revenge on the man who killed his foster father. At the same time, he is drawn to the daughter in the family, Penelope Worth. Wayne’s character soon has to make a decision; to continue down the path he has been following or create a new one with Penelope.

Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

Western

This vivid depiction of heroism and agony features a superb cast. Brian Keith plays Davy Crockett and James Arness is Jim Bowie. Bowie clashes with Colonel William Travis (Alec Baldwin), but is able to bury his differences to focus upon the battle against the Mexican soldiers. The battle scenes are breathtakingly lifelike.

First Cow

Western

Two travelers, on the run from a band of vengeful hunters in the 1820s Northwest, dream of striking it rich, but their tenuous plan to make their fortune on the frontier comes to rely on the secret use of a wealthy landowner's prized dairy cow. With their scheme landing somewhere between honest ingenuity and pure grift, renowned filmmaker Kelly Reichardt finds a graceful and deeply moving origin story of America in their unlikely friendship and fragile life at the margins.

Firecreek

Western

Screen legends and Academy Award-winners James Stewart and Henry Fonda head this story about a farmer with a part-time job as sheriff in a small town, who finds himself face-to-face with a gang of outlaw drifters who want nothing but to start trouble.

El Condor

Western

Set in Mexico during the 19th century, a gold prospector (Jaroo) and an escaped convict (Luke) team up to go after the score of a lifetime. Along the way, they enlist the help of a group of Apache Indians. Together, they hope to storm a large, heavily guarded fortress full of gold.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Western

Paul Newman portrays the frontier hero with gusto and charm in this comedic, high-spirited look at the legendary western adventurer. Co-stars Harvey keitel, Burt Lancaster and Shelley Duvall.

Bad Company

Western

This tale of friendship and survival set during the days of the 1860's focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts. Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft. Jake is a scruffy scoundrel - a saddle tramp not above a little larceny here and there. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually, they find themselves - older and wiser for the journey and friendship. Sensitively and realistically filmed.

The Savage

Western

A white boy grows up with Indians and later suffers from divided loyalties.

The Big Stampede

Western

A new sheriff faces the rustlers who killed his predecessor.

Catch the Bullet

Western

This powerful Western, starring Peter Facinelli (TWILIGHT franchise), shows what happens when you push a good man too far. Britt MacMasters, a U.S. Marshal, returns from a mission to find his father (Tom Skerritt) wounded and his son, Chad, kidnapped by the outlaw Jed Blake. Hot on their trail, Britt forms a posse with a gunslinging deputy and a stoic Pawnee tracker. But both Jed and Britt tread dangerously close to the Red Desert’s Sioux territory, which poses a menace far greater than either can imagine.

Day of the Outlaw

Western

Two rival cattlemen forget their differences to fight six outlaws who take over the isolated Western town.

Return of the Magnificent Seven

Western

The small Mexican farming village which was saved from destruction by "The Magnificent Seven" is under siege once again! An insane rancher (Emilio Fernandez) sends 50 gunmen to round up the villagers to construct a church as a memorial to his slain son. A member of the original Seven (Julian Mateos), who had chosen to stay on as a member of the village, dispatches his wife to contact the former leader of the Seven (Yul Brynner). Brynner solicits a new band (recruited from prison and the local saloon) to ride to the rescue of the villagers. The fierce battle won, a member of the new Seven will stay behind to teach the villagers how to defend themselves if they are ever attacked again. With Robert Fuller, Warren Oates, Jordan Christopher and Claude Akins.

The Man from Colorado

Western

A judge teeters on the brink of insanity... a town on the edge of revolt. And only one man stands between them in this powerful western featuring two of Hollywood's greatest leading men. Glenn Ford delivers a mesmerizing performance as Owen Devereaux, a sadistic Civil War vet who continues to kill for the joy of it even after he becomes a judge. William Holden is outstanding as Del Stewart, Devereaux's marshal and ex-army pal who tries to restrain the judge's violent nature. When Devereaux's psychotic behavior forces the townspeople to take up arms against him, the former friends are pitted together against each other in a brutal conflict with fatal consequences. The suspense never falters in acclaimed director Henry Levin's tightly woven tale which delves into the devastating psychological effects of war.

Saddle the Wind

Western

Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.

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