Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Western: 278 Films to Rent
- Left Handed Gun, The (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Paul Newman
- Influential version of the Billy the Kid story, with Paul Newman portraying the Kid in an ambiguous light, unstable and homosexually repressed. Has…
- Man of the West (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…
- Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
- Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…
- Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
- Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…
- Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
- Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Henry Hull…
- In this goofy western, Jayne Mansfield plays a buxom saloon proprietor who lassos a clueless Englishman when he becomes the sheriff of the titular…
- Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot
- Eccentric western with Sterling Hayden as a Swedish whaler –armed with harpoon – seeking to exact revenge on the greedy oil baron who…
- Wanted Dead or Alive (TV Series) (1958)
- Feat. Steve McQueen
- Riding on the back of success in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Steve McQueen lends his star charisma to this TV western series as bounty hunter Josh…
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin
- Outlaw Glenn Ford is escorted via train to his trial in Yuma by rookie bounty–man Van Heflin. A suspenseful yarn made of Elmore Leonard's novel.
- Decision at Sundown (1957)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele…
- Another fruitful Boetticher/Scott collaboration is the grimmest of the lot with Scott on the trail of the man who drove his wife to suicide.
- Gun for a Coward (1957)
- Dir. Abner Biberman
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule…
- Character driven western with the tragic Jeffrey Hunter as a peaceful cowboy whose non–violent manner saddles him with a reputation for…