Subgenre Sampler
Western: 476 Films to Buy & Rent
- 4 For Texas (Four for Texas) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress…
- Frivolous comedy–western in which "Rat Pack–ers" Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play friendly rivals who each make a bid for a waterfront…
- Hud (1963)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas…
- Handsome idler Paul Newman sows the seeds of trouble in this excellent modern–day Texas western, with his piercing eyes and calculated slouch…
- McLintock! (1963)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo…
- TAMING OF THE SHREW goes West in this rambunctious battle of wits between cattle rancher (Wayne) and his firebrand wife (O’Hara), in search of a…
- Geronimo (1962)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Chuck Connors, Adam West
- Despite the ridiculous casting of blue–eyed Connors as the legendary renegade Apache, this is a half decent B movie, loosely following the…
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…
- The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
- Lonely Are The Brave (1962)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…
- Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles…
- A dream cast and director deliver the classic that one would expect. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne compete for Vera Miles but unite against Lee Marvin…
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
- Virginian, The (TV Series) (1962-1971)
- Feat. James Drury, Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb
- Television adaptation of Owen Wister's novel, where Jame's Drury's 'The Virginian' tries to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in the Wyoming…
- Comancheros, The (1961)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin…
- John Wayne stars (and served as an uncredited director when Michael Curtiz fell ill) in this Western set in Texas in 1843. A Texas ranger arrests a…