Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 281 Films to Buy & Rent
- Django Shoots First (1966)
- Dir. Alberto De Martino
Feat. Glenn Saxson, Ida Galli, Nando Gazzolo…
- Spaghetti western riffing liberally on Sergio Leone stereotypes, and carrying the distinction of being the first DJANGO knock–off. A man sets…
- El Dorado (1966)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Edward Asner, James Caan…
- A poignant portrait of cowboys past their prime has boozy sherriff Robert Mitchum and aging gunman John Wayne team up to rid their town of cattle…
- Few Dollars for Django (1966)
- Dir. Leon Klimovsky
Feat. Antonio De Teffe, Gloria Osuna, Frank Wolff
- Imitation spaghetti–Western, several times removed from the Sergei Leone/Clint Eastwood model, let alone Franco Nero's original 'Django'.…
- Hills Run Red, The (Un fiume di dollari ) (1966)
- Dir. Carlo Lizzani
Feat. Dan Duryea, Henry Silva, Thomas Hunter
- Violent spaghetti western doesn't spare the sauce as two confederate soldiers flee the civil war with some ill–gotten loot. Duryea appears to…
- Hombre (1966)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone…
- Paul Newman portrays the sombre hombre, a white man brought up by the Apache, who helps the red–neck passengers of an ambushed stagecoach.…
- Nevada Smith (1966)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith…
- McQueen plays an orphaned half–breed in the West, who quests relentlessly for his parents' killers.
Beautifully made in some stunning…
- Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
- Rage (1966)
- Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
- Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
- Texas Across The River (1966)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth…
- Gag–heavy Western spoof sees Joey Bishop get painted up 'native' and Dean Martin and Alain Delon facing off for the love of Rosemary Forsyth's…
- Cat Ballou (1965)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin
- Amusing spoof of the genre with Jane Fonda as a school–teacher who becomes an outlaw after her father's untimely death. Lee Marvin won an Oscar…