Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 281 Films to Buy & Rent
- Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…
- Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles…
- A dream cast and director deliver the classic that one would expect. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne compete for Vera Miles but unite against Lee Marvin…
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
- Comancheros, The (1961)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin…
- John Wayne stars (and served as an uncredited director when Michael Curtiz fell ill) in this Western set in Texas in 1843. A Texas ranger arrests a…
- Deadly Companions, The (1961)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Steve Cochran
- Sam Peckinpah's debut film is a typically unorthodox western, that while uneven reveals the quirky characters and emotive nostalgia of his later…
- Last Sunset, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone…
- Melodramatic Western set against the backdrop of the Texas/Mexico border stars Kirk Douglas as a fugitive hounded by Rock Hudson's sheriff, only to…
- Misfits, The (1961)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe
- Stark melodrama was to be the curtain call for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. They are two of a group of cheerless souls roping wild mustangs…
- One Eyed Jacks (1961)
- Dir. Marlon Brando
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado…
- Marlon Brando is an outlaw battling a sheriff in this psychological Western played out against a brooding landscape. Bursts of violence punctuate the…
- Singer Not the Song, The (1961)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…
- Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
- Two Rode Together (1961)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
- Overlooked Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark starrer with the master of the genre at the helm.