Subgenre Sampler
Western: 480 Films to Buy & Rent
El Topo (1971)
- Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Feat. Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The first official midnight movie – Jodorowsky's legendary vision is a bonafide 'head' picture (confusing yet stimulating), committing enough…
Gunfight, A (1971)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander…
- An inventive late western in the Sergio Leone tradition, concerning rival gunfighters Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his debut) charging admission…
Hannie Caulder (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Christopher Lee…
- Raquel Welch dons poncho and six–shooters in this violent quasi–spoof Western, playing the victim of a gang rape who, with the help of a…
Hired Hand, The (1971)
- Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…
- An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…
Hunting Party, The (1971)
- Dir. Don Medford
Feat. Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman
- WILD BUNCH–wannabe with Gene Hackman hunting ruffian Oliver Reed and kidnapped wife Candice Bergan to the ends of the earth. A ridiculously…
Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Garrone
Feat. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Krista Nell
- Brutal spaghetti western with a ruthless cowboy teaming up with an old prospector to take down an unscrupulous banker and his network of killers.
Lucky Luke (1971)
- Hardcase western animation, from the creator of ASTERIX, centred on Lucky Luke the cowboy and his penchant for upholding law over the land.…
Man in the Wilderness, The (w/ The Deadly Trackers) (1971)
- Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Richard Harris, John Huston, Percy Herbert…
- Double Bill Western starring Richard Harris.
THE MAN IN THE WILDERNESS is based on the same source material that inspired the Oscar–winning…
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
- Repentant gunfighter Warren Beatty stakes out a claim for respectability by developing a two–bit mining camp into a town (chiefly by…
Red Sun (1971)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune…
- Exotic western with samurai elements that boasts an international cast. The plot involves a munhunt to retrieve a ceremonial Japanese sword from a…