Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Western: 146 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Seven Men From Now (1956)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin…
- Revered, obscure Western from iconoclast Budd Boetticher: Randolph Scott plays a lone rider charged with bringing seven ruthless bank robbers to…