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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bullets fly in this classic western from H.A. DeRosso. Driscoll is a man with a target on his back. Just released from jail, Driscoll is believed to know where his former cellmate - recently hung for bank robbery and murder - hid his loot. With the robbery fresh in the minds of the townsfolk, it seems like just about everybody wants to know where that money is - and they are prepared to kill for it, too!
Author
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
"Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to see the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Confederate raider to plan a jailbreak to rescue her fiancé, Seaton Flynn, from the hangman's noose. An orphan raised by spinster sisters, Caroline was prepared to do almost anything to save her beloved...
3) High noon
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson star in Arthur Penn's intense and startlingly realistic western classic. Rancher David Braxton is a self-made man who has transformed his rugged land into a vast empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief (Nicholson), Braxton hires a sadistic bounty hunter (Brando) to track down the outlaw, initiating a complex series of events that result in brutality and savagery far...
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), and based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man. It is 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. They have blood on their hands:...
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Four sets of brothers – David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; James and Stacy Keach; Randy and Dennis Quaid; Christopher and Nicholas Guest – depict real-life siblings in this emotionally charged portrayal of the Old West's legendary bandits. The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country. But when the Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down, these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop...
7) Oklahoma!
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star as larger-than-life heroes in this classic Western epic directed by John Sturges. Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp (Lancaster) joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John "Doc" Holliday (Douglas) and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of...
10) Zandy's Bride
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Academy award winner Gene Hackman stars with Liv Ullman in this story of a Western rancher who sends for a mail-order bride. But instead of the compliant woman he sought, the rancher marries a headstrong wife determined to civilize him. Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger.
11) El Dorado
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Robert Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the Wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked “businessmen.”
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as Roy Bean in director John Huston's saga very loosely based on the legend of the West's famous hanging judge who prospers while ruling a desolate West Texas town and worshipping the three loves of his life--an actress he has never met, his faithful mistress and a beer-drinking bear.
13) Planet earth III
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet2s last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive. Each episode focuses on a distinct...
14) The Unforgiven
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-time Oscar®-nominee John Huston directs the iconic Audrey Hepburn in this tale of forbidden love set against America's most rugged frontier. Born to the Kiowa tribe, but secretly adopted by a white frontier family, Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) becomes the target of lawless brutality when her identity is revealed. When the Kiowa tribe wants her back and the local whites want her dead, her only hope for survival is a man (Burt Lancaster) who must...
15) Comes A Horseman
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Set in the American West of the 1940s, director Alan J. Pakula’s COMES A HORSEMAN gives us a pair of little-guy ranchers (Jane Fonda, James Caan) who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron (Jason Robards) determined to expand his empire at whatever cost. Shot by the incomparable Gordon Willis, with music by the great Michael Small, and featuring an indelible Oscar®-nominated performance from longtime stuntman Richard Farnsworth....
16) Crossfire trail
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A restless wanderer is bound by a promise to watch after the widow of a dying friend. His vow leads him to a small town terrorized by a saloon owner and his hired gunman.
17) Lonesome Dove
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love. LONESOME DOVE was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, and won seven. It won two Golden Globes including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a desperate attempt to prime him for rebellion, Ned Kelly's mother, sells him to the notorious bushranger Harry Power, where the young bandit discovers he comes from a line of warriors called the Sons of Sieve. Fueled by his roots and a voracious appetite for revenge, Ned Kelly leads an anarchist army to wreak havoc on Australia's oppressors in one of the most audacious attacks the country has ever seen.
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As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn't be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated...
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