Subgenre Sampler
Western: 480 Films to Buy & Rent
Hombre (1966)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone…
- Paul Newman portrays the sombre hombre, a white man brought up by the Apache, who helps the red–neck passengers of an ambushed stagecoach.…
Navajo Joe (1966)
- Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Fernando Rey
- Bloodthirsty Navajo Joe goes looking for revenge after his family is killed by nefarious outlaws.
Pre–fame Burt teams up with pre–Django…
Nevada Smith (1966)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith…
- McQueen plays an orphaned half–breed in the West, who quests relentlessly for his parents' killers.
Beautifully made in some stunning…
Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
Rage (1966)
- Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
- Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
Texas Across The River (1966)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth…
- Gag–heavy Western spoof sees Joey Bishop get painted up 'native' and Dean Martin and Alain Delon facing off for the love of Rosemary Forsyth's…
Cat Ballou (1965)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin
- Amusing spoof of the genre with Jane Fonda as a school–teacher who becomes an outlaw after her father's untimely death. Lee Marvin won an Oscar…
Duel at Diablo (1965)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, James Garner
- Violent, off–beat Cowboys–and–Indians conflict successfully revives the formula. With Sidney Poitier, and James Garner in a sober…
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
- An improvement on the original film with Eastwood encoring to the strains of that unmistakable Morricone score.
Glory Guys, The (1965)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Andrew Duggan
- A bigoted Civil War general and his subservient cavalry set about to obliterate the Native Indian populous in this atypical western, from the pen of…