Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Western: 470 Films to Rent
Tom Horn (1980)
- Dir. William Wiard
Feat. Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth…
- Flawed but beautifully lensed tale based on a real–life Wyoming bounty hunter, who outlived the wild years of the 19th century and was…
Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey…
- Surprisingly enjoyable prequel to BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID has the roguish duo pursued across various New Mexico landscapes. Utterly…
Cactus Jack (1979)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kirk Douglas
- A fledgling Arnie and Kirk Douglas square–up in this comic take on the Old West.
Electric Horseman, The (1979)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine…
- Curious romantic western with Redford as a former rodeo star who turns his back on his lucrative gig advertising cereal, and heads off to the desert…
Frisco Kid, The (1979)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder
- Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder cross joke–strewn terrain in this comedy Western.
Centennial (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Feat. Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Robert Conrad
- Western mini–series spanning the 200 year history of the town of Centennial, Colarado.
Well–researched in its depiction of the…
Comes A Horseman (1978)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Jane Fonda, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth…
- An unusual attempt to transfer the grand mythos of the Western to a latterday setting, with Fonda playing a ranch boss, who mixes it up with a cousin…
Goin' South (1978)
- Dir. Jack Nicholson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd…
- The ‘Western’ done as farce, with troublesome outlaw Jack Nicholson rescued from the gallows by Mary Steenbergen, in a marriage of…
Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977)
- Dir. Sergio Martino
Feat. Maurizio Merli, John Steiner
- One of the last belated gasps of the 'spaghetti western' genre, with the handsome Merli playing a bounty hunter whose special talent is with the…
White Buffalo, The (1977)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson…
- Rugged and hokey psycho–adventurism in which Charles Bronson channels Captain Ahab in his quest to hunt down a mythical albino buffalo.