Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Chato's Land (1972)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore…
- DEATH WISH in the desert with Bronson picking off rednecks in revenge for his wife's rape and murder. Michael Winner brings his customary…
- Cowboys, The (1972)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. John Wayne, Bruce Dern
- John Wayne loses his cattle ranchers to the gold–rush, so is forced to recruit 11 children, much to the delight of cowboy nasty, Bruce Dern.…
- Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972)
- Dir. Dick Richards
Feat. Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew…
- Intriguing revisionist western with a young farm boy who always wanted to be a cowhand talking a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
- Evil Roy Slade (1972)
- Dir. Jerry Paris
Feat. John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Henry Gibson…
- Wacky western spoof made its way onto screens after originally flopping as TV pilot. John Astin (ADDAM'S FAMILY) plays the titular villain on…
- Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Robert Duvall, Cliff Robertson
- Hard–edged Western tells the story of the fading Jesse James gang and their most daring and ill–fated bank raid.
Duvall and Robertson…
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Will Geer
- A counter–culture sensibility pervades this rugged wilderness western, about a mountain man whose distaste for civilization sees him go off the…
- Joe Kidd (1972)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon…
- An amoral Clint Eastwood gets involved in a range fued between land baron Robert Duvall and Mexican settlers. Despite a screenplay by Elmore Leonard,…
- Junior Bonner (1972)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino…
- Rodeo–rider Steve McQueen is on the end of a losing streak when he revisits his hometown, and a last chance at a new life. Filled with amiable…
- Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner…
- Huston's surreal Western stars Paul Newman as Roy Bean, the eccentric hanging 'judge' of American folklore.
- Man of the East (1972)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Harry Jr. Carey
- Harebrained western has Terence Hill as a poetry–loving city slicker who in order to inherit his fathers ranch must become a…