Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bullet for Sandoval (Vengeance is Mine) (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, George Hilton
- Reasonable foray into the Spaghetti Western genre for splatter king Fulci and as always with Fulci narrative is secondary to violent…
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Paul Newman, Robert Redford
- This light and tasty yarn enjoyed huge popularity, partly due to the abounding charisma of Paul Newman and Robert Redford who together have lots of…
- Charro (1969)
- Dir. Charles M. Warren
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French
- An Elvis curiosity which (mis)casts him in a dramatic Western. An unintentional hoot.
- Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
- Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor…
- The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
- Mackenna's Gold (1969)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif
- Sprawling Western adaptation of the best–selling Will Henry novel about an Arizona Marshal travelling to an unknown canyon of gold who gets…
- Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell…
- Low–budget science fiction foray from Hammer Films, billed as the first moon "western" and released very soon after the first moon landing in…
- Over the Hill Gang, The (1969)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Pat O'Brien…
- Laidback reunion for various horse–opera stars of old cleaning up a lawless town in the old west. Telemovie doesn't quite have a script worthy…
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg…
- Entertaining musical epic based on the popular Lerner–Loewe play. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood play gold prospectors who share a wife they…
- Sabata (1969)
- Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez
- Berzerk spaghetti western with Van Cleef as the titular master gunfighter hunting robbers for rewards. Memorable is an understatement for this…
- Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Joan Hackett
- The definitive Western spoof stars James Garner as a reluctant sheriff ordained to restore law and order to a village struck by goldrush fever.