Subgenre Sampler
Western: 480 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Revengers, The (1972)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode…
- One of the more violet westerns not to be directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden as a rancher and Civil War hero who assembles a posse of…
Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
- Dir. E.B. Clucher
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill
- Equally funny sequel to spaghetti–Western THEY CALL ME TRINITY, starring duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison
- Burt Lancaster saddles up to hunt a band of Apache Indians who have escaped their impoverished reservation and have gone on the warpath.
One of…
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
- Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…
Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Pete Duel, Ben Murphy
- Two notorious outlaws receive amnesty on the condition they lay low for a year in this rumble–tumble western clearly inspired by the rogue…
Bad Man's River (1971)
- Dir. Eugenio Martin
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida
- Jokey spaghetti–west has an outlaw outsmarted by a gang of Mexican Banditos and a conniving widow.
Bearcats! (TV Series) (1971)
- Feat. Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole
- Endearing "late Western" TV series set in 1914 in which Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole star as a pair of charismatic troubleshooters for hire who gad…
Doc (1971)
- Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin
- Underrated retelling of events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral with stronger emphasis on character than gunplay.
This striking…