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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"After riding with Missouri bushwhackers, Taylor Callahan vowed to never take another life. He’s making good on it in Peaceful Valley. By day, swamping a saloon. By night, preaching the Good Book. But this little settlement is about to become anything but peaceable. When the marshal takes a bullet in a sheepman-cattleman skirmish he pins a badge on Taylor leaving the circuit rider open to whole new world of hell . . .A railroad engineer building...
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
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...
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:...
6) 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.
7) 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
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) 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....
12) 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...
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.
14) Wanda Nevada
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A gambler wins an orphaned girl in a poker game, and together they prospect for gold in the Grand Canyon.
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
Seeking the spoils of a heist gone bad by the McDade brothers, smooth-talking con man Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) sets about romancing each of their wives (Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane) in hopes that one of them knows where the stolen gold is hidden. But jealousy among the women soon turns them against one another as they pursue the less-than-scrupulous Dan, all under the watchful eye of their quick-on-the-trigger mother-in-law...
17) The New Land
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
Swedish
Description
Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star in the second half of a sweeping epic of the immigrant experience in THE NEW LAND. Continuing the story begun in The Emigrants, a Scandinavian family struggles to survive and tame the wilderness of Minnesota territory in the 1850s as they cope with a harsh climate, isolation and an inability to speak the language of their adopted country. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner for Best Foreign Language...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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It's the bitterest winter anyone can remember, and Earl Tyrone can barely hold back the wolves preying on his family's last few cattle. He gets no help from his older brother, Byrd, who's only interested in striking out for California. Leaving Earl the sole protector of their ma and sister, Byrd finally reveals the secret source of the funds for his ticket West: he found gold on the ranch, and now it's Earl's fortune to mine--if he's strong enough...
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