Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Western: 281 Films to Buy & Rent
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
- Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
- Rawhide (1951)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Dean Jagger…
- Tense western with a stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler finding themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on…
- Roy Rogers Show, The (TV Series) (1951-1957)
- Feat. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
- Much–loved early TV classic with 'King of the Cowboys' Roy Rogers hanging out on the Double R Ranch with Trigger ('The Smartest Horse in the…
- Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
- The much–filmed story of Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, is the subject of this Irving Berlin musical, with Betty Hutton…
- Bitter Springs (1950)
- Dir. Ralph Smart
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder
- Racially dubious Australian bush western about a 20th century settler (Chips Rafferty) trying to make a living off land shared by an Aboriginal tribe.
- Broken Arrow (1950)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget
- This influenced a trend in offering a more sympathetic view of Indian culture. James Stewart is amiable as always as an army scout who arbitrates…
- Cisco Kid, The (TV Series) (1950-1956)
- Feat. Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo
- A generous selection of episodes from the 1950s TV Western serial, in which the semi–masked 'Cisco Kid' (Renaldo) redistributes justice and…
- Comanche Territory (1950)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer…
- Solid enough B Western with Carey as Jim Bowie sent by the government to negotiate a treaty with an Indian tribe. Double–crossing ensues, but…
- Furies, The (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey
- Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…
- Gunfighter, The (1950)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell…
- Right up there with the best cowboy flicks is this bleak yet brilliant tale of a retiring gunfighter (Gregory Peck) who is challenged by a young punk…