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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A merciless cowboy (Bill Pullman) sets out on a dangerous journey across the frontier, determined to do whatever it takes to avenge his longtime partner’s brutal murder in this thrilling, action-packed western. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. "*This is a satisfying indie western, a dark and brooding film made with both a modern touch and real love for the genre.*" - Kenneth Turan, ***The Los Angeles Times***
3) True Grit
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
No one messes with Texas -- not in Fort Worth. Gunsmoke and glory combine as newspaperman Randolph Scott backs up his fiery editorials with a blaze of bullets when lawlessness threatens. He buckles up a brace of six-shooter "hand cannons" in Colt .45 to chase a desperado who uses similar weapons to terrorize locals. Finally, Scott is a Tall Man Riding -- and brawling and shooting -- as he rights an injustice involving a gambler's attemped land grab....
6) Hud
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
This classic revisionist western explores complex familial relationships as well as the pitfalls of modern capitalism by following the daily life of Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), a young Texas rancher who lives with his cattleman father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and his hero-worshipping nephew Lon (Brandon DeWilde). Though Hud is an amoral, cold-hearted man, he was celebrated as an iconic anti-hero to the countercultural youth audiences of the 1960s. Winner...
10) Monte Walsh
Language
English
Description
Times change. Monte Walsh doesn't. For him, being a cowboy isn't a job, it's a life. And that's something the fenced-in, corporate-bean-counting ways of the onrushing 20th century must never alter.
11) Will Penny
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman, on her way to join her husband out west, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known, but he has too many problems - he's fallen in love with another man's wife, and the gang is on its way to finish him off.
13) 5 card stud
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Someone is stalking the members of a lynching party in Colorado during the 1880's. Things lead to a violent shootout when only two members remain.
14) Son of Paleface
Series
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way.
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Winds of the wasteland: Johnny Blair and Larry Adams buy a run-down stageline from Cal Drake and race him to Sacramento for a $25,00 government mail contract.
Angel and the badman: Badly wounded gunman Quirt Evans is taken in and nursed back to health by a beautiful, innocent Quaker girl and her family.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
18) Saskatchewan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While returning from outpost duty, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector O'Roarke happens upon Grace Markey, the sole survivor of a vicious Indian attack. Upon hearing her story, the naive Mounty Commander Benton believes the Cree are on the war path, not realising the Sioux have set up the confrontation in order to gain allies against the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Only O'Roarke knows the truth and must mutiny in order to save his men and the woman he has...
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A troubled saddle tramp with a penchant for drinking away his pain inherits a ranch from the man who may have been his father. Coming back to the lands of his youth leads him back into the arms of an old flame as well as into the fists some old rivals. As it turns out the ranch is deeply in debt and if they can₂t drive the cattle to Santa Fe within a week.
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