Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Western: 26 Films to Rent on VHS
- Westerner, The (1940)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
- Gary Cooper stars in accomplished Texan yarn concerning land disputes. Most impressive, though, is Walter Brennan in an Oscar–winning…
- Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…
- Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…
- Cimarron (1931)
- Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
- Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…
- Range Feud, The (1931)
- Dir. D.Ross Lederman
Feat. John Wayne, Buck Jones
- A better than B–Western with a young, gangly John Wayne as a ten–galloned Romeo framed for murder while entangled in a feud with his…
- Big Trail, The (1930)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel…
- The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.