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Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.
Jun 30, 2024 · The Western genre got a shot of new ideas starting in the early ’60s thanks to the proliferation of European Westerns, many of them made by Italian directors using stretches of Italy and Spain ...
- 13 The Ballad of Cable Hogue
- 12 Blazing Saddles
- 11 Dirty Little Billy
- 10 Big Jake
- 9 Chisum
- 8 Keoma
- 7 Red Sun
- 6 My Name Is Nobody
- 5 Duck, You Sucker!
- 4 They Call Me Trinity
Jason Robards is the titular prospector Cable Hogue in this unconventional Western set in 1905 and directed by Sam Peckinpah. Hogue turned a desert-watering hole into an enterprise, in honor of the Wild West of the past. He represented the arbitrary selfish side of the untamed frontier through humorous antics. The satirical irony of expanding the W...
Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder (who also starred in the 1979 Western The Frisco Kid with Harrison Ford) comedic dynamic made Blazing Saddlesa witty and timeless classic. Little plays a new sheriff named Bart who is appointed by attorney general Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). His job is to persuade the local townsfolk to migrate elsewhere so that a ...
Michael J. Pollard (Bonnie and Clyde) plays the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in the revisionist Western Dirty Little Billy, directed by Stan Dragoti. It was also the film debut of Nick Nolte in his uncredited role as the town gang leader. Veering from the grandiose scope of traditional Western fare, Dirty Little Billy focuses on the darker elemen...
The Fain Gang of brother bandits terrorized the ranch of Martha McCandles at the Mexico-United States border in 1971's Big Jake. They rode off with her son, Jacob McCandles Jr., and held him hostage for a $1 million ransom. Texas Rangers and the United States Army offered to intervene, but she instead enlisted her estranged husband, Jacob "Big Jake...
Andrew McLaglen's Chisumis loosely based on the 1878 Lincoln County War between territorial factions instigated by Billy the Kid. John Wayne plays the historical figure John Chisum, a wealthy cattle baron who is caught up in the turf war in the New Mexico Territory. The atmosphere and action are close at hand in this western which is sure to appeal...
Franco Nero, the star of Django andDjango Strikes Again,portrayed Keoma Shannon, a biracial ex-Union soldier returning from the Civil War in this memorable Spaghetti Western directed by Enzo G. Castellari. When his half-brothers joined gang ruler Caldwell and overrun his hometown, he recruited his father and his friend to restore order in the postw...
Red Sun united the cinematic talents of The Magnificent Seven's Charles Bronson and one of the Seven Samurai Toshirō Mifune under the direction of Terence Young, who adapted the first of the James Bond films as well as classic hits like Wait Until Dark. In a clash between East and West, this Franco-Italian, multicultural production focused on a dou...
Directed by Tonino Valerii and co-written by the iconic Sergio Leone, My Name Is Nobody starred Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, and Jean Martin. The film followedan aspiring young shootist who idolized a retiring legendary gunslinger. He pushed his idol into a face-off with a posse of rough and gruff 150 fighters, collectively known as The Wild Horde....
Also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time... The Revolution, Leone's underrated and lesser-known Western Duck, You Sucker! features Rod Steiger, James Coburn, and Romolo Valli. Set in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, Duck, You Sucker! is raw, emotional, stylish, and thought-provoking. The film follows two unlikely allies: a brute...
Hill and Bud Spencer made a lot of iconic movies together, especially in the Western and police comedy genres. Enzo Barboni's entertaining They Call Me Trinity followed two peculiar brothers as they ran into each other in a Western town. One brother is an extremely nonchalant young man who happens to be a remarkable gunslinger, and the other is a r...
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Jun 3, 2022 · A quasi-horror Western survivalist movie, 2015's "Bone Tomahawk" stars Kurt Russell as Franklin Hunt, the sheriff of a remote frontier town called Bright Hope. A crisis strikes the town...
2 days ago · Directed by George Englund. "Zachariah, you don't need a gun to die!" Westerns don't get much more acidic than Zachariah, which is very much a product of the late '60s/early '70s psychedelic ...
In 1946, Pioneertown was founded by a group of Hollywood investors with dreams of creating a living movie set — an 1870’s frontier town with facades for filming and interiors open to the public. On the outside were stables, saloons, and jails, and on the inside, were ice cream parlors, bowling alleys, and motels.
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Jul 3, 2024 · John Wayne stars in this classic tale as J.D. Cahill, a tough lawman determined to bring order and justice to his rough frontier town. While chasing down an outlaw gang, Cahill discovers that his own sons are involved in the crimes.
