Subgenre Sampler
      Action/Adventure > Western: 147 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…
 
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…
 
Hallelujah Trail, The (1965) 
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence… 
- Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
 
Major Dundee (1965) 
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton… 
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
 
Black God White Devil (1964) 
- Dir. Glauber Rocha
Feat. MaurÃcio do Valle, Geraldo Del Rey, Othon Bastos 
- A landmark of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, fusing discordant sound and imagery with the embittered folktale of a…
 
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) 
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter… 
- Set in New Mexico in the wake of the Civil War, a small bigoted town is beset by racist prejudices despite being outwardly pro–Union. Yul…
 
Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971) 
- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
 
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
 
Forty Guns (1957) 
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger… 
- A surreal, somewhat lurid Western set in Tombstone, Arizona pits voluptuous land–baroness Stanwyck against the new, world–weary marshall…
 
Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956) 
- Dir. Russell Rouse
Feat. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain… 
- Modest–scale Western with Ford playing a reformed gunfighter who is not allowed to leave his past behind.
 
Lone Ranger, The (1956) 
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger… 
- Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…