Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 282 Films to Buy & Rent
Posse (1975)
- Dir. Kirk Douglas
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins…
- Kirk Douglas acts and directs in this revisionist western about a US Marshal with political ambitions who leads a uniformed posse to hunt down a…
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
- Dir. Stuart Millar
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn
- John Wayne saddles up for another round of boozing and revenging in this follow–up to TRUE GRIT. Reigning in the one–eyed Marshall this…
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
- Dir. Anthony M. Dawson
Feat. Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson…
- Fun western cheapie with Jim Brown heading to Sonora to deliver a payroll....Lee Van Cleef has other ideas.
Billy Two Hats (1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gregory Peck, Desi Jr. Arnaz, Jack Warden…
- Minor western with two bandits on the run from a racist sheriff after a botched bank robbery results in a death. Artful take on the genre is mostly…
Gun and the Pulpit, The (1974)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston…
- A television pilot for an unproduced series starring former evangelist and cult figure Marjoe Gortner as a gunslinger on the lam who impersonates a…
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) (1974-1982)
- Feat. Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert
- Gently focused account of a settler family building their 'little house' on the plains of Minnesota in the 1870s. While not exactly gritty, this is…
Spikes Gang, The (1974)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith…
- Downbeat western with Lee Marvin as a wounded outlaw who finds shelter with two young runaways. Regaling them his colorful stories of life on the…
Chino (1973)
- Dir. John Sturges, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi…
- Downbeat western casts a melancholic eye on the plight of a half Indian horse breeder and his struggles in face of racist townsfolk.
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Train Robbers, The (1973)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor
- Light, traditional–style John Wayne Western following a gun hand who is hired by a widow to find the gold that was stolen by her late husband…
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die! (Una Ragione per vivere e una per morire) (1972)
- Dir. Tonino Valerii
Feat. James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer…
- Uneven spaghetti western set during the American Civil War concerns a private battle between a DIRY DOZEN style group and brutal Confederate…